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Isn't fascinating that the same isn't true for books and music. If it's too similar you get sued
by croes 2y ago
Isn't fascinating that the same isn't true for books and music.
If it's too similar you get sued
- shadowgovt 2y agoI'm not exactly sure, but I think the underlying philosophy here is that code is a lot more like math than like music, and you can't copyright math. So to have any copyright protection at all for code, the Office had to carve a narrow trail where the standard for copying is higher, because there are plenty of circumstances where there is only one right (or most optimal) algorithm, and there's no protection for the algorithm itself.
- croes 2y agoMusic is pretty much math too.
- shadowgovt 2y agoAbsolutely, as Ada Lovelace correctly observed. But IIUC copyright law doesn't generally recognize that association in any deep way.