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From: ark@alice.UUCP
Newsgroups: misc.legal,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Copyrighting trivial code
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Date: Thu, 22-Jan-87 11:36:31 EST
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Posted: Thu Jan 22 11:36:31 1987
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In article <812@imagen.UUCP>, jay@imagen.UUCP writes:
> 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.

I don't see any problem with that!  Of course, it is senseless to
copyright a single word -- but entirely reasonable to copyright the
design of the label: choice of colors, typeface, layout, and so on.