I’d hope an OF creator would be willing to critique and reject the social norm of marriage.

But I think they could be an awesome parent. The personality traits of not icky over sex, understanding nudity, respect for others and their bodies and mores, and resistance to peer and societal pressure seems good.

Yes, because you’ve added a “container” word. Well done. You get a gold star.

It’s hard to take your questions like this in unconditional good faith when you also post like this:

So would be kind enough to indulge me as to asking why you asked this question and what you were expecting from it? And what you’ll do with the resulting knowledge?

I should say though, I do like and appreciate that you’ve taken to asking questions and creating a space where people discuss, or at least fire off comments into the void.

I’m also posting down in the reply chain so it’s not as obvious a post. You’ll get the notification, but others will have to read and look a bit more.

Wokism needs more John Browns, am I right?

Sounds like a narcissist, like Trump or Jez from Peep Show.

Not a healthy outlook and works well to prevent self reflection.

I and Just Stop Oil are glad of your support and understanding.

Day-tah

And it’s uncountable.

You’re welcome, and thank you too.

I agree with all that. The edge cases are tricky and there’s no easy answer.

A painter flicking or splashing paint on a canvas presumably makes something with copyright protection.

Does an accidentally statically impossible basically impossible to tell apart version accidentally made by someone flicking and splashing their own paint infringe it? I’d hope not but can’t really argue for a rule on it that doesn’t involve believing stated goals/mind reading.

Guess not a thing us mortals/non-legal professionals can ever answer.

First, we’re talking cross duristicion, since I was using the EU ruling above.

Second, I’m wondering if what that US page means is that a non-original work doesn’t get copyright protections, or that non-original work is itself in breach of copyright? Maybe I should go digging to find out.

I agree deliberately designed digital worlds are artistic creations. Just that randomly generated ones are not.

You’re probably right that legal examples on both sure probably already exist.

Yes, and you have copyright on the photo - not the layout of the plants and trees in it, nor even the angle of the subject. Someone else can go with a camera and take their own photo without touching your copyright.

Much like with digital files, the copyright is as it is a non-random transformation of a mostly replicable media product. People don’t have a copyright on numbers, even if their 5000 trillion billion digit number happened to turn into a 1960s Disney short if you run it through the right compiler.

A Minecraft World isn’t, not even if you draw on it with exploration as the world was generated from a random seed.

It is random, and unpredictable. You could maybe make an argument from reusing the random seed… But since the ability to turn the seed into the map isn’t something a human can replicate without Minecraft I think it also fails the test for copyright.

Nahh, there’s also a secret amendment that caps them out at 720° of motion in a single instance of movement.

Talky Toaster really didn’t cope well with everyone being dead.

Though wasn’t it the antagonist in one of the book versions?

Must be geographically limited as I don’t.

I live in a town of 220,000 in the UK.

I’m a 5 minute walk from a small supermarket.

10 mins from a corner shop.

5 minute drive from a huge supermarket.

10 minute walk from a doctors’ surgery.

20 minute walk from a dentist’s.

20 minute walk from an opticians.

5 minute walk from a park.

15 minutes walk from primary and 10 minutes walk from a secondary school.

But we don’t really do suburbs in quite the same way, and they’re much more walkable than the pictures I’ve seen of US suburbia.

In the UK we have smaller “urban supermarkets” that sell everything you might need at home but there’s not much choice in it, and there’s a lot of ready to eat meal options. Kinda like a corner shop plus.

And then there are the fuck off huge supermarkets that are like THE Wallmart on the interstate on, usually, the edges of urban areas which have foreign food isles, clothes, toys, and more types of toothpaste than you could use in a lifetime of brushing three times a day.

3.3ft (and that’s a decimal .3, not an imperial .3).

Probably made by a promising young man.

Two for you:

《The Wild Girls》 - Ursula K Le Guin

《Piranesi》 - Susanna Clarke

And if you read fast I reckon you could do China Miévilles 《The City and the City》 or Tade Thompson’s 《Rosewater》 in a day.

Edit bonus: anything by Douglas Adams.