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From: flip@pixar.UUCP (Flip Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Copyrighting Icons
Message-ID: <1707@pixar.UUCP>
Date: 7 Apr 88 05:50:03 GMT
References: <24@imspw6.UUCP> <1522@dataio.Data-IO.COM>
Reply-To: flip@pixar.UUCP (Flip Phillips)
Organization: Pixar -- Marin County, California
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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.

well, lesee, I think I can lick all the 8*8 cases in about an hour or two, 
blast 'em up on a Pixar, take a picture, and we've got it, lets get to work !

[...]

>Ideas are not copyrightable, only implementations are.

As I recall, it goes, "ideas are not copyrightable, expressions of that idea
are" . I think implementation is the wrong word here... But I agree
none the less.

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Flip Phillips                                        {sun | ucbvax}!pixar!flip
Pixar - Marin County, California