Alberto Monteiro wrote:
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??? how could you spoil 'Digimon'?
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> IIRC, two years ago someone asked what kinds of crime
> would there be that we can't even imagine now. I came
> to one, namely:
> "Creating AI creatures with the purpose of making
> them suffer"
sounds like a crime to me.
> ... that I thought was very original.
yes.... (i once invented the 'Tom Collins', it just seemed to me
that gin and grapefruit juice would work out well together.)
> Until I watched {snip} Digimon, and the plot
> {snip} was solved by convincing
> the Evil Emperor that he was causing harm to intelligent
> beings [the Digimons] - he wasn't aware of that, in
> his opinion it was just another game.
since they probably hadn't heard of your idea their 'independent
invention' was original for them too.
> Oh, God, can I process Digimon for copyright violation?
> :-)
<chuckle> 'fraid not. partly because they can almost certainly
demonstrate that they didn't know of the conversation you were in
several years ago, partly because an idea isn't copyrightable, and
probably because your idea was almost certainly not 'fixed in an
immutable form'. (if i were to emulate Homer and create an epic poem
it would not be copyrightable until it was either written down or
otherwise recorded.)
cheers,
christopher
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