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From: wnp@dcs.UUCP (Wolf N. Paul)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Copyrighting Icons
Message-ID: <50@dcs.UUCP>
Date: 8 Apr 88 11:27:23 GMT
References: <24@imspw6.UUCP> <1522@dataio.Data-IO.COM> <1312@PT.CS.CMU.EDU>
Reply-To: wnp@dcs.UUCP (Wolf N. Paul)
Organization: DCS, Dallas, Texas
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In article <1312@PT.CS.CMU.EDU> ralf@B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU (Ralf Brown) writes:
 >In article <1522@dataio.Data-IO.COM> bright@dataio.UUCP (W. 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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Either out of 65,000 or 2    possible bitmap combinations, only a small number
of combinations would be recognizable as images of real-world objects and
would thus be useful as icons.

Wolf Paul
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