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Subject: naming stars - ripoff
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Date: Wed, 14-Sep-83 02:46:00 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep 14 02:46:00 1983
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From:  Robert Elton Maas <REM @ MIT-MC>

It would seem that writing somebody's name on a star chart and
copyrighting that sheet of paper would prevent anyone from making
copies of that chart&name or of forging it by writing or printing the
name again on another clone of that original chart. Thus it would be
illegal to include that star with that name on any published star
chart. That would seem to be just the opposite of what somebody wants
when heesh has a star named after hir, namely requiring makers of star
charts to include that name for that star.