On Fri, 17 Mar 2000, Joseph P. Riolo <riolo[_at_]voicenet.com> wrote:
>
> We had some discussions in the past on how specific ideas can
> be before they become copyrightable
You and this List will, I hope, forgive me for making a fussy linguistic point, but to be precise --- public, unpatented IDEAS are not protected by copyright, no matter how "specific" they are -- full stop. And if we're really talking about ideas, there's no limit to the number of them you can take either -- they're still ideas, and not protected by copyright.
Which is not to say I don't understand that the line between ideas and expression in comparisons of fiction (or otherwise) cannot sometimes be difficult to draw.
Charles Kramer
<tilyou1[_at_]aol.com>
Received on Wed Mar 22 2000 - 09:59:03 GMT
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