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* Copyright is also interesting from a mathematical sense. Consider how information is communicated in a digital network. First the information is encoded into a bitstring which is then communicated together with the description of a function that maps from the set of bitstrings to the set of potentially copyrighted works. Normally the focus is on the bitstring, when someone has been found guilty of communicating a 'protected' work they have merly communicated a bitstring. The simple fact that any work can be encoded into any bitstrings means that the communicating of the bitstring per se can't be viewed as illegal, the bitstring can represent any work, protected or not. It is only when a particular function is applied to the bitstring that the 'protected' work is retrieved. The conclusion is that copyright infrigement can't be about trasnfer or distribution, it must be communication, because the illegal act can't be commited on the concrete level of data trasfer. The illegal act is the communication on how to derive a particular experience or service from the transfered data. | * Copyright is also interesting from a mathematical sense. Consider how information is communicated in a digital network. First the information is encoded into a bitstring which is then communicated together with the description of a function that maps from the set of bitstrings to the set of potentially copyrighted works. Normally the focus is on the bitstring, when someone has been found guilty of communicating a 'protected' work they have merly communicated a bitstring. The simple fact that any work can be encoded into any bitstrings means that the communicating of the bitstring per se can't be viewed as illegal, the bitstring can represent any work, protected or not. It is only when a particular function is applied to the bitstring that the 'protected' work is retrieved. The conclusion is that copyright infrigement can't be about trasnfer or distribution, it must be communication, because the illegal act can't be commited on the concrete level of data trasfer. The illegal act is the communication on how to derive a particular experience or service from the transfered data. | ||
by steven cholic | |||
==Cultural Commons Model vs. Property Model== | ==Cultural Commons Model vs. Property Model== |