Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
> Associated Press expects you to pay to license 5-word quotations (and
> reserves the right to terminate your license)
How about if I just quote conjunctions like "and" and "or", do I have to
pay for those too? What parts of the English dictionary do AP claim
ownership of, exactly?
Do they own foreign language translations of their articles too? Is
their "IP" restricted to just English, or do they own /all/ languages?
Would that include fictional languages such as Klingon, Leet-speak, and
Tolkien languages such as Entish; Orkish and Primitive Elvish?
How about if I translate AP articles into hexadecimal or binary
notation, or employ simple ROT13 encryption ... would that still violate
their "IP", I wonder?
How about if I rendered their articles into ASCII art (a la the DeCSS
fiasco of a few years ago [1]), would that count as a "copy" or an
artistic representation?
More "Intellectual Insanity".
[1] http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/DeCSS/Gallery/bowley-efdtt-dvdlogo.html
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