<div dir="ltr">It's very much a thing: see
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_art">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_art</a> 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.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Aug 28, 2019 at 6:31 PM Lawrence Rosen <<a href="mailto:lrosen@rosenlaw.com">lrosen@rosenlaw.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><div class="gmail-m_1201644119124256478WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.5in"><span style="font-size:12pt">John Cowan </span>wrote:<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.5in">> 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.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt">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<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div></div></blockquote></div>