Diversions (was [dvd-discuss] Copyright ranges)

[Richard Hartman <hartman(at)onetouch.com>]

Interesting new game:  use your name as input to the 
poems script. 

Although I must say that I don't particularly appreciate 
what it makes of my initials ... upper -or- lower case!

(and it really seems to have a thing for "bowstrings"
when I enter my name in almost any form ...)


-- 
-Richard M. Hartman
hartman@onetouch.com

186,000 mi./sec ... not just a good idea, it's the LAW!


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas Olsson [mailto:dvd-discuss@armware.dk]
> Sent: Thursday, August 08, 2002 9:55 AM
> To: dvd-discuss@eon.law.harvard.edu
> Subject: RE: [dvd-discuss] Copyright ranges
> 
> 
> In article <NGBBJDGHJKIFKCHIOJLLKEACCOAA.gross@xinetd.ath.cx>,
> Glendon M. Gross <URL:mailto:gross@xinetd.ath.cx> wrote:
> > No doubt your intellectual property is growing by leaps and 
> bounds.  :)
> 
> That's the idea. By the way, please don't plagiarise my work:
> http://www.armware.dk/cgi-bin/poems/GyjDTfLD9FYzH1MFhOEpXBpUF2IAcsxZ8
> 
> :-)
> 
> > Do you need a means to ensure that the output of the script 
> is not already
> > copyrighted by someone else?
> 
> That would be nice, if it was possible. I'd gladly exclude existing
> works and "just" own the remaining trillions.
> 
> > (Can you imagine how much paperwork would be generated if 
> each and every
> > time the script was run,
> > it submitted an online query to the U.S. Copyright office?)
> 
> As far as I have understood it, there is no requirement for 
> registering
> works, so it might get false negatives. Still, if it was 
> possible, they
> would probably consider it a criminal DoS attack. There 
> really should be
> an exception, allowing copyright holders like me, to flood them while
> searching for my intellectual property. Oh, wait...
> 
> > For example, the old concept was that eventually the 
> digital "monkeys"
> > would type out the complete works of Shakespeare.  In that unlikely
> > event, would those works cease to belong to the public domain?  :)
> 
> It is conceivable that Google (yes, them again), could output 
> a result page
> matching an existing work (but in their own visual style of course).
> So the question still stands - have they really got copyright on every
> single permutation of output? I wouldn't think so, but that's 
> what they
> claim.
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > [snip]
> 
> Regards,
> Thomas
> 
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