You can likewise take the Linux Kernel source, make a small but significant chance to it, and claim copyright over your additions to the original content.
Whether his work meets the bar for such work I don't know. Anybody can claim copyright on anything of course. Something that might be relevant is that he's not changing the work to something of his own expression so much as trying to restore it to close to the original. Seems like there could be an argument there is less creative work there. I don't mean the creative process of doing the restoration, I mean the piece of work that comes out the other end.
> Could I claim copyright over a public domain audio recording from the same time period, if I reproduced it from a wax disk to an mp3? What about early software recovered from a stack of punch cards, could I decode the format, put it up as a binary, and copyright it?
As the other reply said, you can (generally) only copyright original creative work.
The real problem with direct democracy is that votes can be bought by "news" corporations, advertising, lying, and targeting special interests. So you end up under the rule of the rich and what's worse is that people no longer see it.
Yes good point, their "prestigious" space programme is still many decades behind what other nations have already done. And now even private companies have eclipsed their rocket programs embarrassingly.
So you're saying that delegating the suppression of people's fundamental rights to corporations is a hallmark of a fascist state, even if those rights are technically not protected by a written law when attacked by corporations as opposed to government? Well then you're not a "but they're private corporations" weak bootlicking apologist who bemoans "the rights of the corporation" in response to any pushback are not okay
Yes let's stay here away from all the loathsome philistines who aren't intelligent enough to appreciate the enlightened culture here. How dare they make fun of us.
I... I just don't understand, all these global corporations assured me repeatedly that they believed BLM and equality and hated the nazis. I thought we were going to team up in our shared struggle and fight the bourgeoisie together.
Maybe, but don't kid yourself that you (or, the average HN'er) are the working blue collar everyman or share much of their politics. A lot of you would brand a lot of them "nazis" for their opinions.
Derivative work is a foundation of open source software https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derivative_work.
You can likewise take the Linux Kernel source, make a small but significant chance to it, and claim copyright over your additions to the original content.
Whether his work meets the bar for such work I don't know. Anybody can claim copyright on anything of course. Something that might be relevant is that he's not changing the work to something of his own expression so much as trying to restore it to close to the original. Seems like there could be an argument there is less creative work there. I don't mean the creative process of doing the restoration, I mean the piece of work that comes out the other end.
> Could I claim copyright over a public domain audio recording from the same time period, if I reproduced it from a wax disk to an mp3? What about early software recovered from a stack of punch cards, could I decode the format, put it up as a binary, and copyright it?
As the other reply said, you can (generally) only copyright original creative work.