alt Hacker NewsA computer program is just 0s and 1s. Harry Potter books are just raw letters or raw numbers if an ebook.
(The combination is what makes it copyrightable).
A computer program is just 0s and 1s. Harry Potter books are just raw letters or raw numbers if an ebook.
(The combination is what makes it copyrightable).
In practice it's not the combination that is copyrighted (you cannot claim copyright over a binary just because you zipped it, or over a movie because you re-encoded it, for instance).
It's the “actual creativity” inside. And it is a fuzzy concept.