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> What happens when the corpus of all human knowledge really can sit on your table top as the early sci-fi writers predicted? If reality is any indication, the

> What happens when the corpus of all human knowledge really can sit on your table top as the early sci-fi writers predicted? If reality is any indication, then if it's copyrightable it won't be sitting on your table top: * Set of important facts about the world: not copyrightable. Yet so freely accessible I don't even bother to copy Wikipedia to my table top. * Set of important modern books: copyrightable and mostly still under copyright. Also, probably digitized by Google. Not available for table top copying. * Set of important music scores: copyrightable, but most are by dead composers, and most are out of copyright. Hooray! Except the IMLSP had to go offline for almost a year, seek legal help and create a staff-review process for uploads to make absolutely sure no publishers could sue him out of existence. * That full video of Will Forte playing white supremacist "Hamilton Whiteman" at Seth Meyer's actual rehearsal dinner: copyrightable. I actually watched the whole thing at one point, but it apparently got a copyright claim so I can't share it with anyone. I just added this one on the off chance someone on here has a copy and feels daring, because dammit, it was funny, and I want to watch it again. I feel like the tech world needs a decent political mover-and-shaker who could make a Glengarry Glen Ross style speech at this point: something about how with the tools you got available he could go out and make legal table top human knowledge boxes a reality tonight...

thesz 5y ago
Consider Cyc [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyc https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyc It deduces relations from set of facts in it's database. If you have human knowledge from wikipedia on your desktop, you can deduce your own facts using Cyc's engine or something else. It will be fun to tinker with. You can even start your own conspiracy theory, because you can.
nonrandomstring 5y ago
> If reality is any indication, then if it's copyrightable it won't be sitting on your table top: Absolutely spot on. Indeed, the story was an oblique advocacy for SciHub and an argument as to how the digital entertainment industry and publishers may eventually be the greatest obstacle to human progress.
mdaniel 5y ago
> * That full video of Will Forte playing white supremacist "Hamilton Whiteman" at Seth Meyer's actual rehearsal dinner: copyrightable. I actually watched the whole thing at one point, but it apparently got a copyright claim so I can't share it with anyone. I just added this one on the off chance someone on here has a copy and feels daring, because dammit, it was funny, and I want to watch it again. Was the thing you're looking for longer than 2 minutes, because the DDG results page is filled with those 2 minute videos, including the top result is one thrown to by Seth himself: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=will%20forte%20Hamilton%20seth https://duckduckgo.com/?q=will%20forte%20Hamilton%20seth

thesz 5y ago

Consider Cyc [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyc https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyc It deduces relations from set of facts in it's database. If you have human knowledge from wikipedia on your desktop, you can deduce your own facts using Cyc's engine or something else. It will be fun to tinker with. You can even start your own conspiracy theory, because you can.

nonrandomstring 5y ago

> If reality is any indication, then if it's copyrightable it won't be sitting on your table top: Absolutely spot on. Indeed, the story was an oblique advocacy for SciHub and an argument as to how the digital entertainment industry and publishers may eventually be the greatest obstacle to human progress.

mdaniel 5y ago

> * That full video of Will Forte playing white supremacist "Hamilton Whiteman" at Seth Meyer's actual rehearsal dinner: copyrightable. I actually watched the whole thing at one point, but it apparently got a copyright claim so I can't share it with anyone. I just added this one on the off chance someone on here has a copy and feels daring, because dammit, it was funny, and I want to watch it again. Was the thing you're looking for longer than 2 minutes, because the DDG results page is filled with those 2 minute videos, including the top result is one thrown to by Seth himself: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=will%20forte%20Hamilton%20seth https://duckduckgo.com/?q=will%20forte%20Hamilton%20seth