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I thought copyrights on numbers were deemed invalid? Copyright applies to data as it appears right? You can encode a number in any base, the idea that a company
by shiado 6y ago
I thought copyrights on numbers were deemed invalid? Copyright applies to data as it appears right? You can encode a number in any base, the idea that a company has copyright on every base encoding is equivalent to me saying I have copyright on every key because I wrote a program that enumerates all keys.
- matheusmoreira 6y ago> I thought copyrights on numbers were deemed invalid? They are invalid. It's interesting since it implies copyright itself must be invalid. All intellectual property is data, information, a collection of bits... Also known as a number. Copyrighted works are actually just numbers. Really big numbers. Creators are just trying to discover those numbers through their labor.
- userbinator 6y agoIt also means such a program would be illegal, since it would also necessarily involve the creation of numbers that can be interpreted as truly illegal content.