On Wednesday 02 May 2007 12:40:58 Joey Hess wrote:
> Another way to look at this problem is the question of whether this
> program violates copyright:
>
> for int x in 0 .. inf; do print x; done
>
> I claim that it does not, even though it will eventually output the
> HD-DVD key, and much later, th
Marty writes:
> IANAL
This is clear.
> If it applies, then strict scrutiny requires the government to prove that
> the law meets stringent tests that don't apply to other laws.
Copyright infringement suits are not brought by the government.
> Secondly, while their are clear definitions of murde
Joey Hess wrote:
Marty wrote:
I have long questioned whether copyright can be clearly enough defined to
be generally enforceable.
The same can be said about anything from murder to jaywalking.
This is why we have judges who generate case law.
IANAL but I see two qualitative differences: f
Jochen Schulz wrote:
> If the number was copyrighted, converting to a different format would
> yield another, uncopyrighted number -- even when done losslessly. The
> other way round, if you could copyright a number with a
> song/movie/whatever, you could even go as far as to say that with just
> o
Marty wrote:
> Any piece of digital "content" is a single number
Which does not imply that any number can be a copyrightable work. At
least I don't recall sending royalty checks to the inventors of the zero.
In this specific case, IMHO the key in question is not copyrightable
because no “original
Marty writes:
> Losslessly transcoded copies, as reversible mathematical transforms,
> would probably be covered by the same copyright. Some lossy transforms
> may also covered, but an interesting exception is the HDTV broadcast
> flag, which applies a lossy non-reversible tranform, presumably res
Marty:
>
> The recent media debate over a released HD-DVD key, and resulting DMCA
> take-down notices, got me thinking about a broad range of questions
> regarding Debian policy about "IP rights" in general, and specifically
> about numbers as copyrighted "intellectual propery." Any piece of di
On Wed, 2007-05-02 at 07:41 -0400, Marty wrote:
> The recent media debate over a released HD-DVD key, and resulting DMCA
> take-down
> notices, got me thinking about a broad range of questions regarding Debian
> policy about "IP rights" in general, and specifically about numbers as
> copyrighte
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