> PK Dick wrote "The man in the high castle" by extensively using the I Ching, but if I use it and recreate the novel by complete accident I would still be infringing.
I touched on this, with the comment that we love "first to market." That multiple people coming up with the same output may mean that the idea isn't that novel. whether that matters or not isn't really relevant to me.
The part you quoted was just a thought experiment to explain why i compared it to a "clean room implementation" - note it also avoids this argument from a sibling comment:
>need to show that the AI hadn't seen anything derived from that copyrighted work
since there could not possibly be any derived work prior to the "original" work being published. For the sake of argument.
I touched on this, with the comment that we love "first to market." That multiple people coming up with the same output may mean that the idea isn't that novel. whether that matters or not isn't really relevant to me.
The part you quoted was just a thought experiment to explain why i compared it to a "clean room implementation" - note it also avoids this argument from a sibling comment:
>need to show that the AI hadn't seen anything derived from that copyrighted work
since there could not possibly be any derived work prior to the "original" work being published. For the sake of argument.