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“It depends on the circumstances” seems to me like cover for “we made up some random rules that made sense at the time”. If you cover a song on YouTube, you ca
by josephg 4y ago
“It depends on the circumstances” seems to me like cover for “we made up some random rules that made sense at the time”.
If you cover a song on YouTube, you can apparently be demonetised or attract copyright strikes from the original artist. But in software, you tell me an algorithm and I code it up, that’s an original work.
The lines all seem pretty arbitrary to me.
- checkyoursudo 4y agoOh, I used to be a lawyer. "It depends" is just always the answer, whether we like it or not. And, yes, it is pretty much because of “we made up some random rules that made sense at the time”.
- toyg 4y agoIf you remove "random", that's a pretty fair representation of any law, lol.