[colejohnson66]

Stanford has a good webpage about short works and copyrights[0]. I’m sure 512 byte demo scene programs are copyrighted, and with Twitter raising the character limit, I’m sure some could be copyrighted.

[0]: https://fairuse.stanford.edu/2003/09/09/copyright_protection...

[pbhjpbhj]

Thanks, a useful review of US copyright here.

>A similar style of nonsense “code words” prompted Judge Learned Hand to write, “Conceivably there may arise a poet [...] //

A US judge really is called "Billings Learned Hand", surely a case of nominative determinism.