Where Do We Go From Here? -
Chaos or Community? Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. makes a plea for the future of humanity
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Wednesday, 26 February 2020
quote [ "Under copyright law, numbers are facts, and under copyright law, facts either have thin copyright, almost no copyright, or no copyright at all," Riehl explained in the talk. "So maybe if these numbers have existed since the beginning of time and we're just plucking them out, maybe melodies are just math, which is just facts, which is not copyrightable." ]
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steele said @ 7:03pm GMT on 26th February
Oh, I doubt it either. It's just another demonstration of how a scarcity based model fails as technology advances. But you can rest assured as soon as corporation or conglomerate of corporations figure out a way to benefit from technology like this we'll all suddenly have to get in line.
steele said @ 7:44pm GMT on 26th February
Oh, I doubt it either. It's just another demonstration of how a scarcity based model fails as technology advances. But you can rest assured as soon as a corporation or conglomerate of corporations figure out a way to benefit from technology like this we'll all suddenly have to get in line.
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steele said @ 7:03pm GMT on 26th February
Oh, I doubt it either. It's just another demonstration of how a scarcity based model fails as technology advances. But you can rest assured as soon as a corporation or conglomerate of corporations figure out a way to benefit from technology like this we'll all suddenly have to get in line.
TLDR; IP is now officially theft of The Commons. Though I'm sure a court case will tell us that actually math is illegal or something. Again.