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From: weemba@garnet.berkeley.edu (Matthew P Wiener)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: ./etc/APPLE.  No Free Software for Mac users.
Message-ID: <14846@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>
Date: 30 Sep 88 06:06:06 GMT
References: <8809281340.AA16052@EDDIE.MIT.EDU> <664@esquire.UUCP>
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Reply-To: weemba@garnet.berkeley.edu (Matthew P Wiener)
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In-reply-to: sbb@esquire.UUCP (Stephen B. Baumgarten)

In article <664@esquire.UUCP>, sbb@esquire (Stephen B. Baumgarten) writes:
>It's just the same as arguing with an author, complaining that his
>novel shouldn't be copyrighted since you like the characters, plot,
>and settings so much and you wanted to write one of your own, using
>some of the dialog verbatim as well.  The expression of the ideas in
>that novel is the author's intellectual property, and as such it is
>copyrightable.

FYI, characters, plot and setting are not copyrightable.

ucbvax!garnet!weemba	Matthew P Wiener/Brahms Gang/Berkeley CA 94720
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