Re: Re: Protecting Ideas. This sentence is uncopyrightable (period).

At 06:43 PM 1/30/2007, Terry Carroll wrote:
>On Tue, 30 Jan 2007, Lawrence Rosen wrote:
>
>[haiku]: ["Preheat
> > the oven. Be sure to grease the cake pans. Pour batter in pans."] Perhaps
> > these 17 syllables are copyrightable in the context of *this* email simply
> > because it is intended to be a haiku and not really a cake recipe?
>
>The difference is that a haiku is supposed to reference a season; a
>recipe, a seasoning.

This rather reminded me of something silly I posted here some years back. It seemed relatively apropos of the tone that Terry and Lawrence so generously established above: http://srufaculty.sru.edu/david.dailey/copyright/uncopyrightable.htm (If you're new to the group, you may be interested; if you are an oldtimer, you probably know better by now.)

cheers,
David Received on Thu Feb 01 2007 - 03:00:41 GMT