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From: lawitzke@eecae.UUCP (John Lawitzke)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: Re: Who owns the output of an AI?
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Date: Sun, 22-Nov-87 17:38:39 EST
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Posted: Sun Nov 22 17:38:39 1987
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$ 1) Newsflash.   Microsoft   today filed  lawsuit   against 250,000 authors  of
$    various books  and papers  for violation of  copyright.   Said a  Microsoft
$    spokesman,  "Yes, these people really wrote  the manuscripts, but then they
$    gave them, in very raw form, to our program which then  took it upon itself
$    to  edit, layout, and  publish them.  Our  program actually   owns the copy
$    rights to these  items."  When  asked how   his company managed  to file  a
$    quarter of a  million legal documents  in one day, the  spokesman  said "No
$    trouble, we just used  Think Technology's  'legal councillor'  program."  A
$    second later, the Microsoft representative ran  from the room muttering "Oh
$    no ..."

I assume you meant to append a ":-)" to this and not to imply that it
really happened. Or did it?
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