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If you invent some lossy compression, does it mean you can start using copyrighted work because copyright doesn't apply to you anymore? What about adding probab
by mirekrusin 4y ago
If you invent some lossy compression, does it mean you can start using copyrighted work because copyright doesn't apply to you anymore? What about adding probabilistic querying support to it, does it change anything?
- XorNot 4y agoCopyright infringement happens when you reproduce copyright works - i.e. if I analyze digits of Pi get a Disney cartoon out by chance (which statistically, is in there somewhere), I'm still infringing copyright (if I publish it) on Disney despite the fact that nothing they produced was ever included in the input, and Pi itself both contains theoretically anything eventually.
- erehweb 4y agoNit - I don't think your last clause is true. E.g. the truth of "pi contains a sequence of 1000 consecutive sevens" is unknown, afaik.
- tick_tock_tick 4y ago> If you invent some lossy compression, does it mean you can start using copyrighted work because copyright doesn't apply to you anymore? If it's lossy enough absolutely!