Michael A. Scarpitti <mscarpit[_at_]asnt.org> writes...
>
> Is it possible to exclude gibberish from copyright protection? Does
> the material have to make sense?
>
> For example,
>
> 1) A 100-page list of prime numbers (not a computer program, just a
> list of numbers)
>
> 2) A 300-page random string of words in no particular order taken
> from the dictionary or newspaper
>
> Would these qualify as copyrightable materials?
Assume that a person authors a copyrightable work in English. The author then takes the English version of the copyrightable work and encrypts that work using encryption software. The encrypted version is then printed out on paper as a series of zeros and ones. The series of zeros and ones follow a logic derived from multiplying two prime number digits together, with each prime number in the equation being 75 digits long. The series of zeros and ones in the encrypted format is not "random". Is the printed version of the zeros and ones be copyrightable?
Leo Smith
Capital Ventures Group
<barter[_at_]ntplx.net>
Received on Sat Aug 29 1998 - 15:58:30 GMT
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