[License-discuss] The Right of Display

[John Cowan]

It's very much a thing: see  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_art and
its various links.  I haven't done it, because I'm the furthest thing in
the world from a visual artist:  I can visualize anything up to and
including hexagons, filled or outline, in various colors, but that's it.
"Seeing, I see not", as Mr. Swinburne has it (though in a somewhat
different sense).  But what the licensing conditions may be, I don't know.

On Wed, Aug 28, 2019 at 6:31 PM Lawrence Rosen <lrosen at rosenlaw.com> wrote:

> John Cowan wrote:
>
> > But suppose I write and send you a program that, when used as a web
> server, transmits the necessary HTML+CSS to display on a standard browser a
> pattern of highly colored blobs that I consider artistic, such that if I
> painted this same pattern of blobs it would clearly be copyrightable.  If
> the license on the server code says "You can run this on your own computer
> and look at the output all you want", then surely you are not entitled to
> make the server available to all on the Internet, because you have
> infringed my public performance right, which I did not grant you.
>
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>
> I agree with you, but that is nowhere near the examples that I am citing.
> Indeed, it is probably so rare that even you haven't done this, and I won't
> pay you for it anyway. /Larry
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