Re: Re: Protecting Ideas

How about my favorite short poem:

Fleas

Adam
Had'm

copyrightable, no?

Steve

On Jan 26, 2007, at 8:00 PM, Michael Graham wrote:

> Not legal advice, and perhaps apocryphyl, but unless the design is
> entitled to protection as a work of visual arts, a short enough
> phrase to be printed on a bumper sticker probably is not sufficient
> to be entitled to copyright protection. I recall an old truth that
> the shortest legally copyrighted work was a 12 word "poem" by
> Archibald MacLeish: "Pity the poor hippopotamus, That cannot tell
> its top from its bottomus." But I could be wrong.
>
> Michael R. Graham
> From Chicago
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Subject: [CNI-(C)] Protecting Ideas
>
> I am a newbie, and although I have read many posts from this
> website, I really have no background/experience in the area of
> intellectual property rights. But I’m pretty sure this is an easy
> question...
>
> I have come up with an idea for a t-shirt or a bumper sticker. The
> value of the idea is really in the words used to convey the idea,
> not the graphic design of the words and the way they are printed/
> colored/shaped or otherwise composed or presented. Is there any way
> to protect this idea?
>
> Larry D. Jenks AIA, CSI, NCARB
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