Is it possible to create a copyright basilisk?
Is it possible to create a copyright basilisk?
Is it possible to create something where knowing about the thing constitutes copyright infringement?
I suppose you could argue an "illegal number" is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_number.
For example, the HD DVD encryption key saga was originally fought via DMCA notices to Digg: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AACS_encryption_key_controversy
Heads up, your first link is borked
Works for me with Lemmy-UI. I'm guessing whatever client/browser you're using is including the period at the end of the sentence in the URL.
But you have to know the number. It's not copyright infringement if you just know there is a number.
So I suppose being able to memorise and then replicate it? That's not bad. I was thinking along the lines of knowing about a joke where Taylor Swift lyrics were attributed to Mark Twain (for example) would violate Tay tay's moral right of attribution, and that could happen by simply knowing the joke.
You mean like "The Game" but for copyright?
Dammit
lol yes.
That makes it the fifth time this week I've lost the game
oh no i forgor
And I was doing so well for so long. Anyways
No.
You cannot violate copyright by seeing, reading, hearing, or feeling a work. Even if you are knowingly observing an infringing copy, your consumption of that work is not an infringement.
Unless you were complicit in creating or distributing the infringing copy, you are free to consume any copy that you have acquired.
or feeling a work.
Lmao.
"These emotions are a work of art and I demand you pay royalties for feeling them!"
Lol, I was trying to imply "braille", or some other tactile expression...
No.
You cannot violate copyright by seeing, reading, hearing, or feeling a work. Even if you are knowingly observing an infringing copy, your consumption of that work is not an infringement.
Disney: "Them's quitter words!"
Would not the act of memorization an infringing copy? Copyright itself does not allow a provision where a non-ephemeral copy may be stored, regardless of the medium or duration. You would, of course, have the positive defense of fair use - if you were sued for your infringing copy, you could mount a defense that the storage falls under the fair use provisions, but you would still be required to defend yourself at your own expense. Would it make a difference if we, one day, developed a method of reading memories. Someone with a photographic memory could then be used to recreate the work from their copy - clearly a violation, and hence the storage is a violation (excepting backup/fairuse - which is still an infringement, but a special case of permitted infringement)
Would not the act of memorization an infringing copy?
No. The variant of the work recorded within your nervous system does not meet the legal definition of a "copy".
Even if it did, prosecuting such a violation would violate a whole mess of human and civil rights which supersede copyright provisions.
Running a computer program is copyright infringement because the program is copied from HDD to RAM. Watching a movie should be copyright infringement because the movie is copied from the screen to your brain.
What if you were playing a Switch on the train? Would that not be "exhibiting the work publically"?
You could play your Switch on a train, while streaming on Twitch, and it still wouldn't be infringement.
You could tell people where they could download a Switch emulator and the roms for the game you were playing (provided you weren't hosting them yourself), and you still wouldn't be infringing copyright. (The host of that emulator and the roms would be, and you would violate Twitch's TOS, but not copyright law)
I would argue that your followers would not be violating copyright in downloading that emulator and rom; the violator is the uploader, not the downloader.
I would argue that you could then invite your followers to play with you, and you could play on the train, and stream your gameplay on twitch, and still not be violating copyright.
I think the closest you can get to that is illegal numbers
Another example could be clean room design. Essentially reverse engineering code without using copyrighted code. Having someone on a team who has reviewed leaked code could compromise a project and make it more likely to be hit with a copyright claim if they slip up.
This has been an issue/topic of debate with multiple open source projects such as ReactOS.
I could be slightly off here but this is my understanding of it. I hope someone corrects me if I'm off base.
Yeah this was something else I was thinking of. I'm not exactly sure about the mechanics of the infringement here, but it seems like simply knowing a thing taints you for producing a work. I guess it's more about ease of proving?
The key here is that it taints you, not the thing. Just because the source code of eg.: Acrobat is known because the source is leaked, that does not make the source code of an alternative instantly illegal.
No.
This reminds me of a question I heard long ago: if you take a copyrighted material A and XOR it with another material B, and then you distribute the result C, who can claim infringement if at all? The company which owns A or the one which owns B?
Especially that in order to actually claim infringement it means company A obtained a copy of the material of B in order to verify C infringes their rights.
Interesting. Very similar to the copyright logjam which Jim Sterling tries to create in Youtube. Basically uses copyrights of several companies and when they all claim ownership, then none of them can monetise the video.
Both, obviously.
But you don't make it public you did that. If summoned to court, you XOR C with innocuous file D, to get result E, which looks like a random encryption key. Then you tell them the file is D XOR E.
It helps if either A or B is random. There's no chance that your randomly encrypted file is accidentally the XOR of two non-random files.
Trade secrets,?