It's very much a thing: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_art and its various links. I haven't done it, because I'm the furthest thing in the world from a visual artist: I can visualize anything up to and including hexagons, filled or outline, in various colors, but that's it. "Seeing, I see not", as Mr. Swinburne has it (though in a somewhat different sense). But what the licensing conditions may be, I don't know.
On Wed, Aug 28, 2019 at 6:31 PM Lawrence Rosen <[email protected]> wrote: > John Cowan wrote: > > > But suppose I write and send you a program that, when used as a web > server, transmits the necessary HTML+CSS to display on a standard browser a > pattern of highly colored blobs that I consider artistic, such that if I > painted this same pattern of blobs it would clearly be copyrightable. If > the license on the server code says "You can run this on your own computer > and look at the output all you want", then surely you are not entitled to > make the server available to all on the Internet, because you have > infringed my public performance right, which I did not grant you. > > > > I agree with you, but that is nowhere near the examples that I am citing. > Indeed, it is probably so rare that even you haven't done this, and I won't > pay you for it anyway. /Larry > > >
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