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An amateur historian has discovered a long-lost short story by Bram Stoker

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272 points lermontov | 4 comments | 21 Oct 24 16:14 UTC | HN request time: 0.205s | source
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nuz ◴[21 Oct 24 16:50 UTC] No.41905984[source]▶
Seems like a non pessimistic idea of something LLMs could help us out with. Mass analysis of old texts for new finds like this. If this one exists surely there are many more just a mass analysis away
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1. hyperbrainer ◴[21 Oct 24 16:59 UTC] No.41906058[source]▶
The problem with copyright is going to be a big hurdle though.
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2. diggan ◴[21 Oct 24 17:11 UTC] No.41906158[source]▶
Why? Old texts would be out of copyright, and even if they weren't, as long as you're not publishing the source material or anything containing the source material (or anything that can verbatim output the source), it seems you'd be in the clear.
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3. ebiester ◴[21 Oct 24 17:12 UTC] No.41906170[source]▶
If we go to the era of public domain, there is no worry about copyright.
4. hyperbrainer ◴[21 Oct 24 18:59 UTC] No.41907229[source]▶
You are right! I forgot about this completely.