http://www.cloudynights.com/item.php?item_id=1052
BY-NC-SA. NC, grumble, grumble.
Star charts are probably at the limit of what you can copyright, being mere collections of facts, but this is a selective chart (cutting off at magnitude 7).
http://www.mindhacks.com/blog/2005/04/new_scientist_on_the.html
Anyone who thinks AI is dead hasn’t played a computer game, watched news reports form warzones, or used a credit card recently. And they’re certainly not a chess player.
I’ll upload the images to Ourmedia and to this site later. The source image comes from Remix Reading, so I’m uploading there first.
“Two software programs are created. Program A creates ?art data? which is transmitted to program B. Program B is programmed in such a way that it has aesthetic criteria with which it evaluates Program A?s art data transmissions. The human witness doesn?t view the art data, but Program B responds to the art data in a way that is discernible by the human witness. “
Kinda like a negative Turing test. A guy at Middlesex did unseen computer art before I was there, but this is a step beyond that. The producer/consumer pair reminds me of ae from rheart, which was based on ideas from Algorithmic Aesthetics.
The GPL would fit into the metaphor as a neighbourhood watch, or the right of the individual to bear arms…
Both essays are highly recommended, “Gift Domain” was pivotal for me in gaining an understanding of how and why a Free Culture should work.
The bounty hunter metaphor is excellent for copyrights, but I don’t think it works for patents. Patents are more of a protection racket, or a way of declaring certain criminals untouchable. This is possibly an example of Stallman’s complaint that the idea of IP law leads us to make misleading generalisations, or possibly it’s just an example of me reading something too fast because I’m enjoying it too much. 🙂