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From: bayes@hpfcdc.HP.COM (Scott Bayes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Re: Copyrighting Icons
Message-ID: <11010020@hpfcdc.HP.COM>
Date: 7 Apr 88 17:50:44 GMT
References: <1522@dataio.Data-IO.COM>
Organization: HP Ft. Collins, Co.
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>>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 !

Lessee', that's about (mmmm carry the 2) 5 femto-seconds/image. Monochrome,
of course.

How much does that Pixar cost anyhow??!? :-)

Scott Bayes
"infinite loops, of course, take longer"