Xref: utzoo misc.legal:6213 news.software.b:1715
Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!killer!ames!amdahl!uunet!kddlab!titcca!sragwa!wsgw!socslgw!diamond
From: diamond@csl.sony.JUNET (Norman Diamond)
Newsgroups: misc.legal,news.software.b
Subject: Re: Copyright Law Revisited
Message-ID: <10040@socslgw.csl.sony.JUNET>
Date: 17 Oct 88 01:52:53 GMT
References: <1930@vaxwaller.UUCP> <1988Oct13.173958.11367@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: Sony Computer Science Laboratory Inc., Tokyo, Japan
Lines: 26

In article <1988Oct13.173958.11367@utzoo.uucp>, henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:

> A caution ...:  the letter c enclosed in parentheses may be the closest
> approximation to c-in-a-circle that can be produced on limited output devices,
> but it has zero legal standing.  If you cannot produce a real, complete circle
> around the c, use the word "Copyright" instead.

What about the microscopic gaps in the way a circle gets printed onto
imperfectly smooth paper?  Maybe even the gaps between molecules?
What about imperfections in the circular shape?  Who measures the
error tolerance, to see if a (near) square is less valid than another
imperfect circle?

Don't some lawyers have brains?

And they used to complain that _programmers_ built fragile systems.

(Speaking of which, I had to re-edit this article to change its
newsgroups, because our system doesn't know newsgroup ca.general
and therefore saved it in dead.posting instead of putting it in news.
Well, at least it didn't delete this article entirely....)
-- 
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  The above opinions are my own.   |   Norman Diamond
  If they're also your opinions,   |   Sony Computer Science Laboratory, Inc.
  you're infringing my copyright.  |   diamond%csl.sony.jp@relay.cs.net