The US copyright law:
To perform or display a work “publicly” means—
(1) to perform or display it at a place open to the public or at any place
where a substantial number of persons outside of a normal circle of a family
and its social acquaintances is gathered; or
(2) to transmit or otherwise communicate a performance or display of the
work to a place specified by clause (1) or to the public, by means of any device
or process, whether the members of the public capable of receiving the performance
or display receive it in the same place or in separate places and at the
same time or at different times.
Ah, their ridiculous attempt to rule out devices which are merely natural extensions of the body. Problem with that is Stephen Hawking, and other people with neural interfaces, they need devices to even interact aptly with the world.
Also we can define both the muscles of the body and their action as both natural device or process.
If money is a form of speech, ideas are speech. When banks exchange money they exchange digital data, digital numbers, there is a numerical quantity equal to any work of art that is possible. So if we are free to exchange money which today is basically just fundamentally digital numbers, we are free to exchange those numbers at any value including ones corresponding to works of art.
Say, I have a lot of money, and say I send a precise quantity of money, but the quantity corresponds to the compressed form of some copyrighted work. Are you saying it is illegal in principle for me to send this precise quantity of money? Don't you see how ridiculous and self-contradictory that is.
Inflation alone will ensure quantities get big enough that you can send precise quantities corresponding to any of the reasonable size finite set of works of art. Or are you going to DICTATE what precise quantities of money people can send to each other?-source kurzweilai
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