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by sokoloff 1464 days ago
> The real problem here is that scientific works are not artistic creations and shouldn't be covered by copyright

While they are perhaps not artistic creations, I see scientific papers as the creative work of one or more humans. Most computer code is not an artistic creation, but is a creative work nonetheless. My comment here is not artistic…

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Yeah, they're creative, agreed. Code is creative. Making a chair is creative.

Not in general artitistic though. Shoe-horning [ie forcing] computer code into the frame of copyright is also a bad move. It needs its own IPR really.