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Re:Horrible edge cases when dealing with music by f7ebc20c97 on Saturday April 02, 2022 @09:44PM (#30893442)
I'm gonna name my band an 18 TB string of random characters, interspersed with an "idea" that you can't even put into text! Take THAT, Unicode!
Re:Horrible edge cases when dealing with music by javajosh on Saturday April 02, 2022 @11:01PM (#30893989)
Ooh, that gives me the idea to name my album the base64 encoding of it's tracks. The album itself, of course, would be empty.
Re:Horrible edge cases when dealing with music by akira2501 on Saturday April 02, 2022 @11:13PM (#30894060)
I believe you would no longer be able to copyright the track, then. So, you should encrypt the encoded titles, but record an audio track that is a voice recording of you reading out the encryption key for that track. You know, for DRM.
Re:Horrible edge cases when dealing with music by seba_dos1 on Sunday April 03, 2022 @02:20AM (#30894878)
> I believe you would no longer be able to copyright the track

Why? I'm not sure about US law, but here in Poland it would definitely still be copyrighted (even if you'd be effectively granting an automatic implicit license to use that name for the purpose of referencing the work).

Re:Horrible edge cases when dealing with music by akira2501 on Sunday April 03, 2022 @03:05PM (#30899670)
My logic is that you cannot copyright a fact. It is a fact you released an album, and it is a fact you titled it such. I'm free to reproduce that information, say in a catalog, without violating copyright.
Re:Horrible edge cases when dealing with music by seba_dos1 on Monday April 04, 2022 @01:17AM (#30903519)
Being able to reproduce something in particular context without violating copyright does not mean it's not being copyrighted.
Re:Horrible edge cases when dealing with music by labster on Saturday April 02, 2022 @11:46PM (#30894233)
It doesn’t matter if he can copyright it, he can still sell NFTs of each album track.
Re:Horrible edge cases when dealing with music by eyelidlessness on Saturday April 02, 2022 @11:02PM (#30893996)
Hi are you Fiona Apple and if so can we be friends?
Re:Horrible edge cases when dealing with music by scns on Sunday April 03, 2022 @06:19AM (#30895847)
Is that the limit on Postgres' TEXT column?