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To: Jim Robinson
It would be interesting to develop a computer program to automatically rewrite news articles to preserve the "facts" and quotes from the articles, but sufficiently different to avoid copyright issues.
27 posted on 06/24/2002 9:11:43 PM PDT by HAL9000
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To: HAL9000
It would be interesting to develop a computer program to automatically rewrite news articles to preserve the "facts" and quotes from the articles, but sufficiently different to avoid copyright issues.

Running an article through Babelfish a few times might do it.

47 posted on 06/24/2002 9:44:58 PM PDT by LarryLied
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To: HAL9000
It would be interesting to develop a computer program to automatically rewrite news articles

Such programs exist. I posted a link to one on sourceforge a few months ago.

60 posted on 06/24/2002 10:10:51 PM PDT by altair
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