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by rlidwka 4035 days ago
> When someone can tell me who owns the number 2, I will tell you who owns our cultural heritage of songs.

Well, the number 13,256,278,887,989,457,651,018,865,901,401,704,640 is actually copyrighted.

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Yes, in the book of large numbers, there is a page between 13,256,278,887,989,457,651,018,865,901,401,704,639 and 13,256,278,887,989,457,651,018,865,901,401,704,641 where it has in giant block type "This page left intentionally blank due to copyright request by the MPAA"
IIRC, that number is not copyrighted per se but instead considered a DMCA anti-circumvention device. A number is a device! How absurd.