Re: A simple but puzzling question

On 16/03/98, Michael Cooney <mcooney[_at_]midcoast.com> wrote:
>
> [I] woke up with an idea for a T-shirt/bumper-sticker, etc. [... and]
> surmised that the first thing I should do is look into "protecting"
> the phrase which I hope will help me retire from the road. [...]
> I didn't make up this phrase. [...] I'd like to do the right thing.

As I see it, the phrase is currently in the public domain--nobody has registered any "rights" over it. Why not simply produce the shirts/stickers without trying to exclusively appropriate the phrase? If someone (perhaps the person from whom you heard it) comes to you for a share of your profit, ask yourself what the "right thing" would be, at the time.

> what's "John Perry Barlow's now-venerable Wine Without Bottles
> essay"?

You want his "The Economy of Ideas" essay. Try this version on Wired:

   http://www.wired.com/wired/2.03/features/economy.ideas.html

CYa,
JEREMY Jeremy G. Byrne
<jeremy[_at_]iz.org> Received on Tue Mar 17 1998 - 16:23:56 GMT