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Ozymandias wrote: ↑Fri Nov 08, 2019 4:39 pm

chrisw wrote: ↑Fri Nov 08, 2019 4:02 pmCopyright is something that lawfully belongs to a person. A machine is not a person

But belongs to a person, a group of persons or a company.

Ovyron wrote: ↑Fri Nov 08, 2019 8:06 pm chrisw, are you saying I can't copyright this picture I made?



Can I copyright it?

Dann Corbit wrote: ↑Fri Nov 08, 2019 9:26 pm You can own that image, but not the fractal math that made it.
Your creative input would be (I suppose) in selection of the fractal equation and in the coordinates, and in the color palate.

I do think it is not a totally cut and dried situation.

I suggest to Albert that the simple solution to the dilemma

is to encrypt the file and then read it with a decryption API.
Then it is simply a trade secret.

chrisw wrote: ↑Fri Nov 08, 2019 11:53 pmI don’t understand the question

Ovyron wrote: ↑Sat Nov 09, 2019 3:18 am

chrisw wrote: ↑Fri Nov 08, 2019 11:53 pmI don’t understand the question

I asked if I can copyright the picture or not. That you don't know would show how you wouldn't know if Fat Fritz's weights could be copyrighted either.

chrisw wrote: ↑Sat Nov 09, 2019 10:43 am

Ovyron wrote: ↑Sat Nov 09, 2019 3:18 am

chrisw wrote: ↑Fri Nov 08, 2019 11:53 pmI don’t understand the question

I asked if I can copyright the picture or not. That you don't know would show how you wouldn't know if Fat Fritz's weights could be copyrighted either.

The phrase “picture I made” does not contain sufficient information to be able to answer. And all I could have done was report known legal factors, but you could look those up yourself. Anyway, as it turns out, you weren’t interested in knowing about your picture, it was instead a cipher for trying to get a personal opinion, but I don’t have a personal opinion on its legal status, the status either is or isn’t, independent of anything I might think. Hope that’s enough for you now.

Ozymandias wrote: ↑Sat Nov 09, 2019 11:28 am

chrisw wrote: ↑Sat Nov 09, 2019 10:43 am

Ovyron wrote: ↑Sat Nov 09, 2019 3:18 am

chrisw wrote: ↑Fri Nov 08, 2019 11:53 pmI don’t understand the question

I asked if I can copyright the picture or not. That you don't know would show how you wouldn't know if Fat Fritz's weights could be copyrighted either.

The phrase “picture I made” does not contain sufficient information to be able to answer. And all I could have done was report known legal factors, but you could look those up yourself. Anyway, as it turns out, you weren’t interested in knowing about your picture, it was instead a cipher for trying to get a personal opinion, but I don’t have a personal opinion on its legal status, the status either is or isn’t, independent of anything I might think. Hope that’s enough for you now.

A cipher? Whatever do you mean?

chrisw wrote: ↑Sat Nov 09, 2019 12:21 pm

Ozymandias wrote: ↑Sat Nov 09, 2019 11:28 am

chrisw wrote: ↑Sat Nov 09, 2019 10:43 am

Ovyron wrote: ↑Sat Nov 09, 2019 3:18 am

chrisw wrote: ↑Fri Nov 08, 2019 11:53 pmI don’t understand the question

I asked if I can copyright the picture or not. That you don't know would show how you wouldn't know if Fat Fritz's weights could be copyrighted either.

The phrase “picture I made” does not contain sufficient information to be able to answer. And all I could have done was report known legal factors, but you could look those up yourself. Anyway, as it turns out, you weren’t interested in knowing about your picture, it was instead a cipher for trying to get a personal opinion, but I don’t have a personal opinion on its legal status, the status either is or isn’t, independent of anything I might think. Hope that’s enough for you now.

A cipher? Whatever do you mean?

Surely you have come across the expression “a cipher for”? Rather than me long windedly explain it to you, you could endeavour to work it out from context.