In that scenario, the very premise is wrong. You *can* copyright integers under ...

jamesbritt · on Jan 12, 2014

Do you have an example of an integer copyrighted as an integer?

Dylan16807 · on Jan 12, 2014

Do you accept base 36?

How about hex http://daniel.haxx.se/hexpoetry/ http://daniel.haxx.se/hexpoetry/goodies.html

What matters is a certain level of creativity and art. 'as an integer' is no more meaningful than 'as postscript' or 'in times new roman'. It's about the underlying work.

jamesbritt · on Jan 13, 2014

Intersting, though I think the copyright is with the readable poem, not the integer that can be derived by intepreting the poem as hex.

Has this ever been tested in court?