Thanks, Brian, but it's already published somewhere that's better than the Rolling Stone...here. Feel free to reprint it in the newsletter if you'd like (heck, I didn't affix the copyright before publishing, so it's probably p.d. smile )

Now, back to Kenneth,

As to your question, first I'll comment, then I'll answer.

Your idea of registering works generated by computer is nothing new. Years a ago we, here, were discussing a computer program that supposedly could tell if a song was "good" or had commercial potential. In that discussion, we came up with the idea of copyrighting every combination of musical notes as generated by a program. I'm sure Brian will remember that discussion. (I should have copyrighted it, I guess smile ).

Unless you added into your program a way to avoid registering copyrights for works which were already registered, you'd be infringing existing copyrights. Also, the fees would be prohibitive. It costs money to register each work. From where would your income be generated? Would you be depending on suing future authors whose work was successful? No, it smacks of something an evil genius from Batman comics would be doing to spoil it for everyone else (I'll show them, I'll turn on this ray and make them all empty their bank accounts and send them to meeeee! HA HA HA HA. First Gotham City, tomorrow the WORRRRLD!).

I don't believe it would stand up in a court. It is completely against the letter and spirit of the law. It is "gaming" the system just because you can. (I think your ant farm is STUPID, little brother, so I'm going to plug this sonic pest repeller in my side of the room and drive them crazy, nyaa nyaa.) You even state one of your consequences here would be "put every writer out of business" well, for that statement alone I'd recommend not doing it. I find it is obviously and absolutely immoral.

Just because we don't like, don't respect, or don't understand something that others do is no reason to spoil it for them.




You've got to know your limitations. I don't know what your limitations are. I found out what mine were when I was twelve. I found out that there weren't too many limitations, if I did it my way. -Johnny Cash

It's only music.
-niteshift

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