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From: jay@imagen.UUCP (Jay Jaeckel)
Newsgroups: misc.legal,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Copyrighting trivial code
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Date: Wed, 21-Jan-87 19:33:02 EST
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Posted: Wed Jan 21 19:33:02 1987
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Summary: Even more trivial assertion of copyright
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In article <2490@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU>, nobody@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU (Unprivileged user) writes:

>>  [  Regarding the copyright notice on an otherwise one-line program  ]

> No.  If there is only a countable number of ways to state something, it is
> not copyrightable.  Expressions such as "Baby on Board" are generally not
> copyrightable.  For such expressions, it appears that the fuzzy line of
> demarcation is around one sentence.
> 
> 	Stan Tomlinson

Even worse -- A co-worker of mine has a roll of little round adhesive
stickers for marking master copies of things.  Each sticker has the
word "MASTER" on it and a copyright symbol.

-- J.J.