mercredi 31 décembre 2014

Digital copyright impossible?


All digital data is but a stream of ones and zeros. It is therefore (in theory) possible to encode all digital data as a decimal number, which cannot be copyrighted, at least in the US.


This leads to a rather intriguing question: would distributing these numbers be legal under US and international copyright law?


EDIT: what if this number happens to be prime? There are many sites dedicated to such numbers. Would they get sued or C&D'd over publishing the number?





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