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In article <48451@ut-emx.uucp> timbur@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Tim Burnett) writes:
>Apple's only audio visual copyright is on HyperCard. Previous posters have
>said that Apple's design of the Mac Interface happend before the a&v copyright
>went into law and therefore it is not protected by it. This I believe is true.
>Apple settled a dispute over the origin of HyperCard to settle any doubts also.

	You are confusing two distinct issues.  Some person (Paul Heckel?)
claims to have a software patent upon which hypercard infringes.  This is
not a coyright issue.  Apple Computer claims that its copyright on the
Macintosh's operating system extends to software with sufficiently similar
behavior.  This has nothing to do with hypercard.

	I don't know what you mean by "audio visual copyright."

	I believe that your claim that Apple's lawsuit against Microsoft
and Hewlett-Packard "has only to do with the contract" is completely false,
for reasons which I detailed in a posting a couple of days ago.

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