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From: mesard@bbn.com (Wayne Mesard)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Copyrighting Icons
Message-ID: <23120@bbn.COM>
Date: 7 Apr 88 15:14:48 GMT
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From article <1707@pixar.UUCP>, by flip@pixar.UUCP (Flip Phillips):
> 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.

2 ^ (16x16)  ==  1.157920892373162e+77

> 
> 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 !
> 

2 ^ (8x8)    ==  1.844674407370955e+19

>>Ideas are not copyrightable, only implementations are.

Implement away.

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unsigned *Wayne_Mesard();                     MESARD@BBN.COM
                                              BBN Labs, Cambridge, MA
Once a Scribe hacker, always a Scribe hacker.