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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 g
by 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 agoYour 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.