Re: Aphorisms and Copyright

On Fri, 14 Aug 1998, Bob Stock <bstock[_at_]ucla.edu> wrote:
>
> (court order kindly supplied by Bob has been severely edited)
>
> > 4. That the defendant, its agents, officers, attorneys and
> > employees and all acting in concert or participation with them, be and
> > hereby are permanently restrained and enjoined from offering for sale
> > or selling heat transfers containing expressions identical or
> > substantially similar to plaintiff's epigrams set forth above.
>
> Obviously, these are bare conclusions with no analysis as to the
> threshold question of copyrightability, but what the hell is a heat
> transfer, and why would defendant use those kinds of sayings on such
> a product?

It's a method of, for example, applying a design to a T-shirt.

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