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Copyright was always bizarre in the sense that any information can be expressed as numbers. So why are some numbers more copyrightable? Also reminds me this ("

by shmerl 5y ago

Copyright was always bizarre in the sense that any information can be expressed as numbers. So why are some numbers more copyrightable? Also reminds me this ("Microsoft Patents Ones, Zeroes"): https://web.archive.org/web/20100607151726/http://www.theonion.com/articles/microsoft-patents-ones-zeroes,599/ https://web.archive.org/web/20100607151726/http://www.theoni...

otterley 5y ago
Any novel can be expressed as a sequence of alphabetical characters. So why are these copyrightable?
- shmerl 5y ago
  Exactly the question you should wonder about. So translating in to abstract form, different numbers have different legal application :) Illegal numbers anyone?