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		colejohnson66 on April 27, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Disney claims anyone using a Twitter hashtag is ag... Stanford has a good webpage about short works and copyrights[0]. I’m sure 512 byte demo scene programs are copyrighted, and with Twitter raising the character limit, I’m sure some could be copyrighted. [0]: https://fairuse.stanford.edu/2003/09/09/copyright_protection...

pbhjpbhj on April 28, 2020 [–]

Thanks, a useful review of US copyright here.

>A similar style of nonsense “code words” prompted Judge Learned Hand to write, “Conceivably there may arise a poet [...] //

A US judge really is called "Billings Learned Hand", surely a case of nominative determinism.

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