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Update: It has now flagged the file with "0\n" in it. So it's official, Both 0 and 1 are copyrighted :) https://imgur.com/a/xMgh6Xn https://imgur.com/a/xMgh6X
by tyingq 5y ago
Update: It has now flagged the file with "0\n" in it.
So it's official, Both 0 and 1 are copyrighted :)
https://imgur.com/a/xMgh6Xn https://imgur.com/a/xMgh6Xn
- Crosseye_Jack 5y agoWell that MP3 the RIAA flagged was FULL of ones and zeros, so it only makes sense they would get flagged ;-)
- bl4ckneon 5y agoDoes that mean someone copyrighted binary? :p I guess that mean that this comment and everything digital is copyrighted.
- jrockway 5y agoTechnically any creative work you author is copyrighted, so your comment was copyrighted anyway. Whether or not large tech companies will punish people for infringing upon your copyright is yet to be determined.
- johannes1234321 5y agoI don't know about US lawy but in German law there is a requirement on some originality. ("Schöpfungshöhe") The barrier is low, but a 1 certainly doesn't receive the protection.
- Sharlin 5y agoYep. A HN comment a couple of sentences long, OTOH, is probably just on the threshold where whether it counts as a protected work depends on just how “unique” the comment is.
- johannes1234321 5y agoAs we are on HN, not reddit, thus comments are more than "yes" or "lolz" they are most likely protected. However one implicitly gives a license to YCombinator - at least to publish it. And what other rights can be upheld would be interesting.
- teachrdan 5y agoRelevant Onion article here: https://www.theonion.com/microsoft-patents-ones-zeroes-1819564663 https://www.theonion.com/microsoft-patents-ones-zeroes-18195...
- PixelOfDeath 5y agoRelevant real Microsoft patent on the IS NOT OPERATOR: https://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PG01&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=%2220040230959%22.PGNR.&OS=DN/20040230959&RS=DN/20040230959 https://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2...
- labster 5y agoWhy is satire so much better at predicting our dumb reality than sci-fi? This is definitely the darkest timeline.
- a9h74j 5y agoGPT-3 says: In mathematics, there is a search for a satire-to-satire mapping function with the longest cycle length. These are called N-quines.
- Ygg2 5y agoBecause rational people like to think people are rational. Rational people then go on and write their great sci fi works. People writing satire know people are irrational. Otherwise they wouldn't be writing satire, would they? To quote George Carlin: Take an average idiot on the street, then realize half of people are dumber than them.
- ImprovedSilence 5y agoHaha wow. In another testament to the times, the length of yesterday’s satire seems as long as todays “long form”, and much more developed than todays two line satire “articles”. /end soapbox
- Talanes 5y ago
- blibble 5y agoI hope you did that from a burner account!
- gtirloni 5y agoExactly my thoughts. I'd not want to risk angering the Google gods with this experiment, considering your account can be disabled by yet another automated system with no way to contact a human.
- jfoster 5y agoBetter do it from a burner device on a burner internet connection, to prevent Google from detecting any link between your burner account and your real account.
- rezonant 5y agoRemember, "there is no review for this restriction"
- meshaneian 5y agoI believe 0 and 1 belong in the public domain, at least under US copyright law - there appears to be a significant amount of prior art.
- lostcolony 5y agoNot sure if prior art is relevant, per se (usually quoted in the context of patent law but IANAL), but, certainly, any copyright has expired by this point.
- josho 5y agoSeeing as the default font used by google's file reader is Roboto and that typeface has only been around since 2014, so my expression of 0 using Roboto is copyrighted 2014. I do not know how any of you _hackers_ stole my original work, and I certainly do not authorize it's use. Immediately send me your full name and address so that I can have my lawyers contact you.
- dwaite 5y agoIt might be that the 1s and 0s are derivative works, such as being derivatives of sin(x) and cos(x) for x->0.
- judge2020 5y agoFYI while Drive and YouTube's Content ID systems operate based on copyright, they are not entirely bound to it since they only actually have to comply with DMCA requests (barring any lawsuits that claim Google has the resources to create automated copyright detection systems[0]). Even when claiming copyright, they can remove and block access to content for any reason they want legally. 0: https://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/19/business/media/viacom-and-youtube-settle-lawsuit-over-copyright.html https://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/19/business/media/viacom-and...
- rezonant 5y agoThey theoretically are based on copyright, but in practice the way it works is a few trusted entities are allowed to submit content and claim it as their own. If you have access to a Content Owner dashboard, you can claim literally any content you want from there- you'll just be putting your access to that dashboard at risk if you claim content that isn't actually yours to claim and Google gets wind of it. This is how movies and music are added to the system for copyright enforcement purposes- they are effectively uploaded to YouTube and never published (this is called an "asset" in Content Owner parlance)
- steelframe 5y agoCareful there. My law firm in east Texas happens to own the patent rights to a system and method of concatenating a plurality of 1s and 0s for the purpose of generating an encoding of a creative work, and as such you are in peril of infringing on one of my claims with your concatenation of 1s and 0s!
- deleted 5y ago[deleted]
- politician 5y agoGeneral Mills owns the copyright on 0s, sir. (Cheerios)
- CleaveIt2Beaver 5y agoBut do they own an NFT of an 0?
- gcanyon 5y agoThat’s it, kids, the internet is now illegal — until we switch to a quaternary system using only 2’s and 3’s <taps forehead smartly>
- kelnos 5y agoWouldn't that still be binary, just using different symbols?
- purplebreak 5y agohttps://xkcd.com/257/ https://xkcd.com/257/
- a9h74j 5y agoSuspicious -- just when Google is announcing success with qbits and quantum computing.
- a9h74j 5y agoDoes this mean every binary file is now a derivative work?
- kingcharles 5y agoSilence copyrighted too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4%E2%80%B233%E2%80%B3 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4%E2%80%B233%E2%80%B3
- zapdrive 5y agoMaybe it's because you have "one" in the file name: "zeronewline".