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From: mjn@teddy.UUCP (Mark J. Norton)
Newsgroups: net.music.synth
Subject: Re: Re: DX7 PATCHES COPYRIGHTED?
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Date: Wed, 20-Mar-85 09:27:06 EST
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Posted: Wed Mar 20 09:27:06 1985
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> 
> For example, if I take Heinlein's last novel and change the names of
> all the characters, the result is still the property of whomever owns
> the novel's copyright.  At the other extreme, if I take the same novel,
> eliminate all but the first word, and write another novel following
> that word, the result is a derived work and not my property.
> 
>   -- Andrew Klossner   (decvax!tektronix!orca!andrew)       [UUCP]

If this is true, then there are a lot of "derivative" books on the 
market right now all begining with the word "The".

	Mark J. Norton
	decvax!genrad!panda!mjn