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		FireInsight on June 23, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: TinyLetter shut down by Mailchimp, so I built the ... If there's a thousand monkeys with a thousand typewriters, and they all write a single page to a thousand-page epic, is the scientist allowed to copyright and sell it as a book?

lupire on June 23, 2024 [–]

In the US, absolutely. The scientist set up the conditions and curated the output, and animals have no creative copyright privileges of their own.

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