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by otakucode 2396 days ago
Your black box is a camera. And there is a mountain of legal precedent saying that I own the copyright, and you can not.

Also, copyright applies to anything fixed in a medium of expression. You can not copyright a formula, but you can copyright its expression as soon as it is fixed in a medium. You cannot copyright the abstract idea of a graph, but you can copyright its expression or rendering once fixed in a medium.