Re:Google receives patent for attention-based sequence trans...
by kazinator on Thursday May 11, 2023 @09:12AM
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> you can't just get around a piece of code's copyright by using different function and variable names and perturbing the organisation either.
Such changes can thwart the very suspicion that it's a derived work, and failing that, thwart the proof. In a case where the piece of logic is small, and there are only four ways of writing it, modulo naming, nobody can prove infringement unless they have some hard evidence, like security camera footage of you starting with the original and editing it.
Any bit string can be turned into into any other by a series of small edits that insert or delete a single bit, so any bit string could be suspected of being a derived work of any other.
Copyright infringement that is not provable is not real.
Such changes can thwart the very suspicion that it's a derived work, and failing that, thwart the proof. In a case where the piece of logic is small, and there are only four ways of writing it, modulo naming, nobody can prove infringement unless they have some hard evidence, like security camera footage of you starting with the original and editing it.
Any bit string can be turned into into any other by a series of small edits that insert or delete a single bit, so any bit string could be suspected of being a derived work of any other.
Copyright infringement that is not provable is not real.