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Article #75499Re: look-n-feel: cost without benefit
From: Bernie Cosell
Date: Wed, 01 Aug 1990 14:16
Date: Wed, 01 Aug 1990 14:16
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butcher@g.gp.cs.cmu.edu (Lawrence Butcher) writes: }Look-and-Feel Copyrights, and Copyrights on anything besides Source Code: }Utter disaster. Catastrophe. There is no physical embodiment of the }protected work! There are no claims! }The only way that it can be decided whether one creative effort infringes on }another is by going to court! The only way to show that an idea has been }expressed before is in court! How is this different than the way infringements are settled for other copyrighted works? Infringing is *always* decided in court, no? If you're worried about 'physical embodiment', that's no problem, any more than it is for music and songs. /Bernie\
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,69b36400835d49c9 X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1990-08-01 07:16:19 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!wuarchive!emory!mephisto!bbn.com!cosell From: cosell@bbn.com (Bernie Cosell) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Re: look-n-feel: cost without benefit Message-ID: <58614@bbn.BBN.COM> Date: 1 Aug 90 14:16:19 GMT References: <10063@pt.cs.cmu.edu> Sender: news@bbn.com Lines: 17 Posted: Wed Aug 1 15:16:19 1990