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It is relevant. To quote wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threshold_of_originality#Mechanically_produced_works https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threshold_o

It is relevant. To quote wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threshold_of_originality#Mechanically_produced_works https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threshold_of_originality#Mecha... > The U.S. Copyright Office has taken the position that "in order to be entitled to copyright registration, a work must be the product of human authorship. Works produced by mechanical processes or random selection without any contribution by a human author are not registrable." If a human draws a fractal, that is art. If a computer produces a fractal, that is math, and math is not copyrightable. Copyright also allows for independent derivation, so if you produce an image or sentence that is identical to another, but can somehow prove you did not know about the supposed original, you're in the clear for copyright. It is impossible to know if something is a copyright violation without also knowing all sorts of things, including the intent of the author, and if the author knew about the supposed original work.

stale2002 2y ago
> "in order to be entitled to copyright registration Did you read this part at all? Do you know what copyright registation is? Hint: whether you get copyright registation has nothing to do with whether what you did was legal. You seem to know enough of the buzzwords that this distinction should be obvious to you. Which makes me confused as to why you would misinterpret such a clear and important difference unless it was to intentionally mislead to people who aren't aware of the law. You could even go read the first sentence of that wikipedia article to understand what it was about. "The threshold of originality is a concept in copyright law that is used to assess whether a particular work can be copyrighted. It is used to distinguish works that are sufficiently original to warrant copyright protection from those that are not" Notice. This is not the same as if it infringes on someone else's work. Why did you misunderstand that article so seriously?

stale2002 2y ago

> "in order to be entitled to copyright registration Did you read this part at all? Do you know what copyright registation is? Hint: whether you get copyright registation has nothing to do with whether what you did was legal. You seem to know enough of the buzzwords that this distinction should be obvious to you. Which makes me confused as to why you would misinterpret such a clear and important difference unless it was to intentionally mislead to people who aren't aware of the law. You could even go read the first sentence of that wikipedia article to understand what it was about. "The threshold of originality is a concept in copyright law that is used to assess whether a particular work can be copyrighted. It is used to distinguish works that are sufficiently original to warrant copyright protection from those that are not" Notice. This is not the same as if it infringes on someone else's work. Why did you misunderstand that article so seriously?