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Please don't feed the trolls. - Is a Player Piano... | 456 comments | Create New Account

Comments belong to whoever posts them. Please notify us of inappropriate comments.

Please don't feed the trolls.

Authored by: om1er on Thursday, November 29 2012 @ 12:33 PM EST

Is a TV showing cartoons a different device than the same TV showing a cooking
show?

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March 23, 2010 - Judgement day.

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Please don't feed the trolls. - Is a Player Piano...

Authored by: tce on Thursday, November 29 2012 @ 01:25 PM EST

Is a player piano with a ragtime scroll loaded a different machine then a player
piano with Mary Had Little Lamb installed?

Do you argue that the inventor of the player piano mechanism and owner of
applicable patents must share the patent coverage with all future composers?

The composer performs a mental manipulation of symbols with meaning, and then
might or might not happen to translate/transcribe their ideas to ink on paper,
or instead to holes in paper.

If they then load said paper onto the one single prototype player piano machine,
do they have valid patent claims in conflict with the mechanical engineer /
inventor?

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