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Article #27111Re: Re: Copyrighting Icons
From: Scott Bayes
Date: Thu, 07 Apr 1988 17:50
Date: Thu, 07 Apr 1988 17:50
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>>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. > >well, lesee, I think I can lick all the 8*8 cases in about an hour or two, >blast 'em up on a Pixar, take a picture, and we've got it, lets get to work ! Lessee', that's about (mmmm carry the 2) 5 femto-seconds/image. Monochrome, of course. How much does that Pixar cost anyhow??!? :-) Scott Bayes "infinite loops, of course, take longer"
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!amdahl!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!ucsd!sdcsvax!ucsdhub!hp-sdd!hplabs!hpcea!hpfcdc!bayes From: bayes@hpfcdc.HP.COM (Scott Bayes) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Re: Copyrighting Icons Message-ID: <11010020@hpfcdc.HP.COM> Date: 7 Apr 88 17:50:44 GMT References: <1522@dataio.Data-IO.COM> Organization: HP Ft. Collins, Co. Lines: 15