> A compressed file containing Quake's source code would be covered by the copyright on Quake's source code. The compression algorithm would not. What? Where d

> A compressed file containing Quake's source code would be covered by the copyright on Quake's source code. The compression algorithm would not. What? Where does the distinction between data and algorithm go with compression algorithms? In its most abstract form a compression algorithm is function `{0, 1}^n -> {0, 1}^m` such that n < m and the output string is the result of something previously encoded. Why can't the input string be the seed used to make the machine learnt model generate the Quake source code?