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A company tried to put it on toilet paper but Roger Penrose claimed ownership so they had to stop http://bit-player.org/2017/sir-roger-penroses-toilet-paper htt
by cwmma 4y ago
A company tried to put it on toilet paper but Roger Penrose claimed ownership so they had to stop http://bit-player.org/2017/sir-roger-penroses-toilet-paper http://bit-player.org/2017/sir-roger-penroses-toilet-paper
- pmarreck 4y agoDoes he have ownership over ALL aperiodic tilings or just the ones he's come up with? Anyway, that's unfortunate. Can't he just get a cut or something? Also, this all really begs the question as to whether this is an "invention" or just "math". Imagine if Newton's heirs had to get a cut every time Newtonian physics was used (or calculus for that matter... splitting it with Leibniz's heirs)
- layer8 4y agoSince it’s aperiodic, shouldn’t he only be able to claim copyright on the configurations he actually produced? Algorithms aren’t copyrightable, only concrete works fixed in a medium of expression.