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Re:U.S. tells Google computers can qualify as drivers by Flammy on Tuesday February 09, 2016 @11:25PM (#11070763)
Well if company can be people, and companies can copyright/patent/own/protect algorithms they've developed, I guess it makes sense an associative properties sort of way that algorithms can be people...
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Re:U.S. tells Google computers can qualify as drivers by ehnto on Wednesday February 10, 2016 @02:06AM (#11071189)
Does that mean we can copyright people, so long as that can be described by an algorithm?
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