The file format of bitcoin can’t be protected by copyright, a U.K. judge has found, ruling against self-proclaimed inventor of the cryptocurrency Craig Wright.
Wright, who says he wrote the 2008 bitcoin white paper under the pseudonym Satoshi Nakomoto, had sought to argue that he should be able to block the operation of bitcoin (BTC) and bitcoin cash (BCH) as they breach his intellectual property rights.
In a Tuesday ruling, Judge James Mellor said the file format of bitcoin – the sequence of a header and list of transactions that together form a block – can’t be treated like a literary work, because Wright can’t show how they were first recorded, a test known in copyright law as fixation.
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