It would be amazing.

Fan edit, spoofs, redubs, fan commentary tracks, watch alongs.

It could be a cultural renaissance.

Yes, because you’ve added a “container” word. Well done. You get a gold star.

Day-tah

And it’s uncountable.

You’re welcome, and thank you too.

I agree with all that. The edge cases are tricky and there’s no easy answer.

A painter flicking or splashing paint on a canvas presumably makes something with copyright protection.

Does an accidentally statically impossible basically impossible to tell apart version accidentally made by someone flicking and splashing their own paint infringe it? I’d hope not but can’t really argue for a rule on it that doesn’t involve believing stated goals/mind reading.

Guess not a thing us mortals/non-legal professionals can ever answer.

First, we’re talking cross duristicion, since I was using the EU ruling above.

Second, I’m wondering if what that US page means is that a non-original work doesn’t get copyright protections, or that non-original work is itself in breach of copyright? Maybe I should go digging to find out.

I agree deliberately designed digital worlds are artistic creations. Just that randomly generated ones are not.

You’re probably right that legal examples on both sure probably already exist.

Yes, and you have copyright on the photo - not the layout of the plants and trees in it, nor even the angle of the subject. Someone else can go with a camera and take their own photo without touching your copyright.

Much like with digital files, the copyright is as it is a non-random transformation of a mostly replicable media product. People don’t have a copyright on numbers, even if their 5000 trillion billion digit number happened to turn into a 1960s Disney short if you run it through the right compiler.

A Minecraft World isn’t, not even if you draw on it with exploration as the world was generated from a random seed.

It is random, and unpredictable. You could maybe make an argument from reusing the random seed… But since the ability to turn the seed into the map isn’t something a human can replicate without Minecraft I think it also fails the test for copyright.

Nahh, there’s also a secret amendment that caps them out at 720° of motion in a single instance of movement.

Talky Toaster really didn’t cope well with everyone being dead.

Though wasn’t it the antagonist in one of the book versions?

Must be geographically limited as I don’t.

I live in a town of 220,000 in the UK.

I’m a 5 minute walk from a small supermarket.

10 mins from a corner shop.

5 minute drive from a huge supermarket.

10 minute walk from a doctors’ surgery.

20 minute walk from a dentist’s.

20 minute walk from an opticians.

5 minute walk from a park.

15 minutes walk from primary and 10 minutes walk from a secondary school.

But we don’t really do suburbs in quite the same way, and they’re much more walkable than the pictures I’ve seen of US suburbia.

In the UK we have smaller “urban supermarkets” that sell everything you might need at home but there’s not much choice in it, and there’s a lot of ready to eat meal options. Kinda like a corner shop plus.

And then there are the fuck off huge supermarkets that are like THE Wallmart on the interstate on, usually, the edges of urban areas which have foreign food isles, clothes, toys, and more types of toothpaste than you could use in a lifetime of brushing three times a day.

3.3ft (and that’s a decimal .3, not an imperial .3).

Two for you:

《The Wild Girls》 - Ursula K Le Guin

《Piranesi》 - Susanna Clarke

And if you read fast I reckon you could do China Miévilles 《The City and the City》 or Tade Thompson’s 《Rosewater》 in a day.

Edit bonus: anything by Douglas Adams.

I can use a drill, jigsaw, or circular saw and not feel pain; yes.

Don’t think this is just a me thing, as my family seem fine using them too.

I hadn’t heard Fire in the Booth 4 before as it never hit my music streaming services. Thanks for waking me to its being.

Dig Lowkey too, music was the only good development of the criminal “war on terror”.

Enjoy. They’re all classics in their own way (or will be in 10 years time).

Oh, not a comedy but Inside Number 9 is some of the best TV ever made. Well worth watching, too. Amazing tight stories unrelated except by show runners and the number 9.

Akala - Fire in the Booth 1 The flow, message, content. An artist with top skills, showcasing what he can do.

Supreme NTM - Le Pouvior Just always dug this track. Resonates with me.

We do love a panel show, they can be great.

I tend to cleave to comedies more than much else, but if you’re interested in more Black Adder esque things I can recommend the following:

Red Dwarf - old sci-fi sitcom about losers in space.
Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace - an old drama in a hospital built on a rift to hell.
Green Wing - early 2000s comedy set in a hospital.
Toast of London - sit com following Toast, a pompous actor who feels he is better than the voice over work he earns his income from.
Fleabag - dramedy show based off of a stand up routine about being a horrible fleabag of a woman.
We Are Lady Parts - comedy following Amina, who is about to join a Muslim girl punk band.
Friday Night Dinner - comedy based around a weekly family dinner.
Black Books - sitcom in a book shop.