[time-nuts] MIT RADIATION LABORATORY SERIES 1940-1945 (28 VOLS) on eBay

Chuck Harris cfharris at erols.com
Wed Jul 13 19:31:40 UTC 2011


Of course.  As yet we haven't (I think?) awarded any copyrights, or other
rights, to machines for their artistic abilities.

-Chuck Harris

Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> In message<4E1DEE43.3070700 at erols.com>, Chuck Harris writes:
>
>> I can conceive of a case where a publisher like McGraw-Hill's copyrighted book
>> full of public domain IP could be copied if you used your own type font, and
>> formatting of pages, pictures and text, etc...
>
> Yeah, well, maybe...
>
> The crux of this case is that it has to be humans doing it.
>
> Just OCR'eing the book and letting a computer reformat the words to
> a different page-layout is unlikely to earn you a copyright.
>
>



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