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Obligatory Dinosaur Comics: http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=353 http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=353 "You can't copyright a fact (like a number), bu
by zachrose 12y ago
Obligatory Dinosaur Comics: http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=353 http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=353
"You can't copyright a fact (like a number), but you can copyright a creative work, like a song or a piece of software. But since one can be transformed into another, copyright law is logically INCOHERENT."
- yzzxy 12y agoGodel's lesser-known Nonliability Theorem has as of yet failed to gain much traction in the MPAA.
- pasiaj 12y agoWhat Colour are your bits? http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23 http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23
- infogulch 12y agoOh! I love this article! Very enlightening. Thanks for reminding me about it!
- ithkuil 12y agoWow, great article! Does a number that represents a range within Pi, get also coloured as copyrighted if your intent while computing it was the search for a copyright coloured sequence of bits within Pi ? I think that for a lawyer it doesn't really matter; it doesn't matter which technique you're using to encode your data, as long as somebody can access that content and you did that on purpose. They're good at dealing with loosely defined things like intent, better than with formally defined things. I wonder what amount (and progress) of AI research has been done in this area; not all illogical things are bullshit, however you might want to feel about them. Anti-digital-rights sentiment (disclaimer: I personally deplore much of the consequences about enforcement of digital rights, so I share that sentiment at many levels) sometimes can cloud judgement, and I've seen many people invoke rational thinking so well they successfully miss the point.
- malka 12y agoYou cant copyright a number, but you can make it illegal[0]. [0]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_number https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_number