> That's a contrived example because none of those lines could be protected by copyright, patents, etc. Well no. The question I'm asking about, the philosophic

> That's a contrived example because none of those lines could be protected by copyright, patents, etc. Well no. The question I'm asking about, the philosophical distinction between "producing" or "combining" is a valid question no matter the copyrightability of anything. It's an interesting philosophical question even if we presume that copyright is bubkis. > It was a hypothetical "AI" for the sake of discussion, not that it matters. Ah, my mistake. I see that now. > Of course I don't, it's a neural network. You don't know either. I may not know how to make a lightbulb, but I do know hundreds of ways not to make one ;)