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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