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If you used a spirograph to create art, you would own the copyright. If you created a spirograph that was robot controlled and could automatically create art th
by FigBug 11y ago
If you used a spirograph to create art, you would own the copyright. If you created a spirograph that was robot controlled and could automatically create art then nobody would own the copyright. I don't see how an easel count create art on it's own.
- qopp 11y agoThe distinction is arbitrary. The only difference between the spirograph and the robot is you are touching the spirograph while it's operating.
- blintzing 11y agoIf I write a computer program (say a Processing sketch) that generates an image, who owns the copyright to the image?
- Retric 11y agoUnless your directly influencing the output you own the copyright to the program not the output. Basically, if your code generates a random image you don't get copyright, which is useful as generating say every English haiku is actually possible. It's under ~(15,831 syllable candidates) ^ 17.
- spc476 11y agoHere's a real case: The Policeman's Beard is Half Constructed, a book released in 1984. The prose and poetry was written by Racter, a computer program written by William Chamberlain. The illustrations were done by Joan Hall, and the introduction to the book was written by William Chamberlain. So it's clear that Joan Hall owns the copyright to the illustrations, and William Chamberlain the introduction. But what of the rest of the book?
- cmdrfred 11y agoSo when you procedurally generate a world in mine craft does the guy who manually inputs the seed count as the creator, or Notch, or both, or none?