Copyright maze generated?
Programmer Jim Bumgardner (Jim Bumgardner) in his spare time enjoys compiling labyrinths. The other day, he visited a supermarket and saw a pack of Kraft Mac & Cheese macaroni, which depicted "something very familiar . "
For a stranger, the picture may not seem outstanding, but Jim spent many years writing software to generate such mazes. If you look closely, you can see the tops of the Fibonacci spiral. According to the author, this is a rather unique design.
To check, Jim Bumgardner bought this pack, brought it home and compared it with a collection of mazes that were generated by his program and published on the Internet . Pictures can be used "for personal purposes and in schools." For commercial use, you need permission.
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The author rather quickly found a coincidence: on the macaroni package there is labyrinth No. 1 from the first Intermediate Mazes book, only rotated 90 ° and edited in several places.
Attempting to extend the copyright to the result of the work of a computer program is a rather dubious initiative, from a legal point of view.
Nevertheless, Jim Bumgardner is sure he is right: “Useful advice to the guys from Kraft Foods, or any other transnational corporation that wants to use my works without permission: you had better steal the maze from book No. 47 and make a horizontal revolution before rotate it 90 °. It will slow me down a bit, ”he writes.
For a stranger, the picture may not seem outstanding, but Jim spent many years writing software to generate such mazes. If you look closely, you can see the tops of the Fibonacci spiral. According to the author, this is a rather unique design.
To check, Jim Bumgardner bought this pack, brought it home and compared it with a collection of mazes that were generated by his program and published on the Internet . Pictures can be used "for personal purposes and in schools." For commercial use, you need permission.
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The author rather quickly found a coincidence: on the macaroni package there is labyrinth No. 1 from the first Intermediate Mazes book, only rotated 90 ° and edited in several places.
Attempting to extend the copyright to the result of the work of a computer program is a rather dubious initiative, from a legal point of view.
Nevertheless, Jim Bumgardner is sure he is right: “Useful advice to the guys from Kraft Foods, or any other transnational corporation that wants to use my works without permission: you had better steal the maze from book No. 47 and make a horizontal revolution before rotate it 90 °. It will slow me down a bit, ”he writes.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/229899/
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