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Article #26091Re: Copyrighting Icons
From: L Lang
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 1988 14:21
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 1988 14:21
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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. Hmm... If there are 16*16 pixels in the icon, each of which may be on or off, then aren't there 2^(16*16) = 115,792,089,237,316,195,423,570,985,008,687,907,853,269, 984,665,640,564,039,457,584,007,913,129,639,936 possible icons, rather than 2^16 = 65536 That may take a little longer. Personally, I'm busy renaming all the stars. :-) Larry Lang "My fingers and toes are the only digital computer I've ever really understood."
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!nrl-cmf!mailrus!umix!umich!mibte!gamma!pyuxp!nvuxj!nvuxr!larryl From: larryl@nvuxr.UUCP (L Lang) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: Copyrighting Icons Message-ID: <585@nvuxr.UUCP> Date: 12 Apr 88 14:21:12 GMT References: <24@imspw6.UUCP> <1522@dataio.Data-IO.COM> <1707@pixar.UUCP> Organization: Bell Communications Research Lines: 19 Summary: Binary Combinatorics