Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 09:42:55 05/01/02
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On May 01, 2002 at 04:24:39, Dan Andersson wrote: >>Sorry, but this is wrong. IE I can _definitely_ copyright a collection such >>as "Fischer's games where he used the theme 'xxxxx' to break through". All >>that copyright law requires is that I do some sort of "work" in putting the >>collection together. Just filtering all of Fischer's games won't fly. But >>"Fischer's 100 greatest games" is definitely copyrightable as that is a subset >>of all the games he played and it required work/effort on my part to extract >>just the games I thought important or related... >I'm not certain that you are correct. You could certainly try to defend your >copyright on the collection of uncommented game scores. But it's possible to >construct other criteria that would make the selection of those hundred games. >Using a random generator f.ex. There would be no problem at all to construct a >biased one to get any given set of games. And then I would have the source code >to back me up. > >MvH Dan Andersson I don't think that would work either. IE I can make a program that randomly picks words from a dictionary and writes them to a file. And any statistician would agree that that program, given enough run-time, would produce _any_ literary work that has been done. I don't think that just because a Markovian process can produce something means it can't be copyrighted. Or else nothing is copyrightable... My opinion of course, after listening to a couple of presentations. YMMV and I could always easily be wrong here...
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