![]() That being the case, we need to ask where the information exists – is it solely in the number? No, not really. In fact, in many cases, paraphrases are also limited, in which case the numbers wouldn’t necessarily look anything alike. So not only is the exact representation “owned” or restricted or whatever, so are any number of variations. ![]() Changing a few bits here and there wouldn’t generally help you to avoid copyright infringement, because you’d usually only be changing a letter or two, maybe a few words. When converted to text on a computer, it can be seen as one huge number. In fact, not only do we generally copyright exact numbers, we copyright numbers that are substantially similar to the original one.įor instance, say you have a novel. In that sense, we’re *already* copyrighting numbers, and have been doing so for decades. ![]() Images, music, text, can all be displayed as numbers or strings of numbers.Īny work that can be copyrighted – as long as it can be represented by a computer – can also be represented as a number. As you’ve shown with your flag, numbers can have visual representations, auditory ones (no doubt the sequence creates a series of tones, if properly translated), and so on. Seems to me that every form of information that can be represented by a computer, can be represented as a number.
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