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Any work, no matter how trivial, is eligible for copyright as long as it is an original artifact with a distinct identity.
by dpratt 5y ago
Any work, no matter how trivial, is eligible for copyright as long as it is an original artifact with a distinct identity.
- throwaway858 5y agoCopyright laws vary wildly across countries and jurisdictions
- tzs 5y ago...but aside from Eritrea, Ethiopia, Iran, Iraq, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Palau, Somalia, and South Sudan everyone is part of one or more (usually more) international treaties that cover copyright such as the Berne Convention or TRIPS or UCC, so you should expect in most places that most people on HN are likely to ever deal with have copyright law that isn't too different for the most common situations.
- emilfihlman 5y agoNot true, u64 add26562(u64 value) { return(value+26562); } is not copyrightable.
- anonymousab 5y agoIf that function always returned, say, the AACS key then it would likely be violating copyright in the US. Regardless of whether it was the result of a computation or statically defined.
- emilfihlman 5y agoI'll press x on that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AACS_encryption_key_controversy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AACS_encryption_key_controvers...