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[Karsten M. Self]

on Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 12:12:07PM -0700, Seth David Schoen (schoen at loyalty.org) wrote:
> Karsten M. Self writes:
> 
> > In the 1940s or 1950s, IIRC, a book consisting of intentionally random
> > (or pseudorandom) sequences was published, and successfully defended
> > under copyright.  It was original, and consisted of authorship.  A quick
> > Google search doesn't turn up a reference, but I'll dig harder if asked.
> 
> The famous such book is _A Million Random Digits with 100,000 Normal
> Deviates_, published by the RAND Corporation.  It took a lot of
> technical development work to generate so many strongly random numbers
> at that time.

Which implies a sweat-of-the-brow, not an original-work-of-authorship,
argument for copyright.

I'm still not finding the legal cites I had in mind, but suspect the
curious can with the data available.

Thanks, Seth.

Peace.

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