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From: lih@cunixc.columbia.edu (Andrew Lih)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Copyrighting Icons
Message-ID: <558@cunixc.columbia.edu>
Date: 10 Apr 88 18:25:17 GMT
References: <24@imspw6.UUCP> <1522@dataio.Data-IO.COM> <1707@pixar.UUCP>
Reply-To: lih@cunixc.columbia.edu (Andrew Lih)
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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.

I hate to be picky, but aren't there many more icons than this?

a 16 x 16 matrix has 256 pixels, then with each dot having an on or off
state, would make this 2^256...which is a horridly large number.

If we add color or gray scales to the icon, then we can obviously
forget even trying to draw all the possible icons..

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