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Article #26090Re: Copyrighting Icons
From: Andrew Lih
Date: Sun, 10 Apr 1988 18:25
Date: Sun, 10 Apr 1988 18:25
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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.. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= """"""" Andrew "Fuz" Lih lih@cunixc.cc.columbia.edu | @ @ | Computer Consultant UI.LIH@CU20B.COLUMBIA.EDU < ^ > \ - / Columbia University Center for --- Computing Activities ...rutgers!columbia!cunixc!lih =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!rutgers!columbia!cunixc!lih 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) Organization: Columbia University Lines: 21