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I'm not a lawyer, but I think you are misunderstanding paragraph b: > In no case does copyright protection for an original work of authorship extend to any ide

I'm not a lawyer, but I think you are misunderstanding paragraph b: > In no case does copyright protection for an original work of authorship extend to any idea, procedure, process, system, method of operation, concept, principle, or discovery, regardless of the form in which it is described, explained, illustrated, or embodied in such work. I think what that means is that just because your copyrighted work describes or represents some system it doesn't mean that you have copyrighted the system itself. For example if you write a book that describes an operating system in general terms it doesn't mean that you have any rights to the general concept of an operating system as it exists in any form apart from your book. So I don't think that paragraph is relevant to whether a work made of LEGO bricks is copyrightable or not (I think that the answer to that question would typically be yes).

lawlessbricks 6y ago
Embodied: be an expression of or give a tangible or visible form to (an idea, quality, or feeling). If I create a lego model, and put it in front of you, and give you the blocks you need to create that model, is the model not a tangible embodiment of the recipe that is that lego model? Now, if I made a from-scratch, clay model of a plane, and then said to you, recreate exactly this from clay, if you did it would be infringement IMO, because you didn't copy the recipe, but 100% recreated it. The final form of the clay work, is separate from the recipe to create it. With Lego, it's visible in every brick connection line. My argument is lego are a procedure, which the result embodies the procedure, sort of like a quine. (again, I'm not a lawyer.)
- tgflynn 6y ago
  Your argument would apply equally well to a book. A book is nothing but a sequence of symbols chosen from a small finite set. Therefore a book is actually a recipe for recreating itself because the book tells you exactly how to arrange it's symbols in order to recreate it. Hence applying your reasoning it follows that a book is not copyrightable. But we all know that books are copyrightable, so your argument must be flawed.

lawlessbricks 6y ago

Embodied: be an expression of or give a tangible or visible form to (an idea, quality, or feeling). If I create a lego model, and put it in front of you, and give you the blocks you need to create that model, is the model not a tangible embodiment of the recipe that is that lego model? Now, if I made a from-scratch, clay model of a plane, and then said to you, recreate exactly this from clay, if you did it would be infringement IMO, because you didn't copy the recipe, but 100% recreated it. The final form of the clay work, is separate from the recipe to create it. With Lego, it's visible in every brick connection line. My argument is lego are a procedure, which the result embodies the procedure, sort of like a quine. (again, I'm not a lawyer.)

tgflynn 6y ago
Your argument would apply equally well to a book. A book is nothing but a sequence of symbols chosen from a small finite set. Therefore a book is actually a recipe for recreating itself because the book tells you exactly how to arrange it's symbols in order to recreate it. Hence applying your reasoning it follows that a book is not copyrightable. But we all know that books are copyrightable, so your argument must be flawed.