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Just because they aren't copyrightable doesn't mean that we can use them as prior art if we publish them all, does it?



Not generally. Prior art works like that for patents. For copyright the courts generally allow copyrights on things created independently of an existing item. So it's likely the whole exercise is worthless at affecting any future copyrights.




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