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From: ralf@B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU (Ralf Brown)
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Subject: Re: Copyrighting Icons
Message-ID: <1312@PT.CS.CMU.EDU>
Date: 5 Apr 88 02:21:30 GMT
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In article <1522@dataio.Data-IO.COM> bright@dataio.UUCP (Walter Bright) writes:
}A lot of people think that small icons should be copyrightable. If your icons
}are, say, 16 * 16, then there are 65,000 possible icons. Anyone can simply
}copyright all combinations, and then prevent anyone else from using
}*any* 16*16 icons. This is obviously ludicrous.

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I'd like to see someone copyright 2   combinations!  There are 65,000
possible 4*4 monochrome bitmaps, but 4*4 is not all that useful.
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