Re: Aphorisms and Copyright

On 18, August 1998, Howard G. Zaharoff <hgz[_at_]buslaw128.com> wrote:
>
> On 8/13/98, Bob Stock <bstock[_at_]ucla.edu> wrote:
> >
> > Ashleigh Brilliant comes up with pithy sayings and registers them
> > with the US Copyright Office. To find out more about Brilliant,
> > you can take a peek at his website at:
> >
> > http://ashleighbrilliant.com/
>
> As for the potential copyrightable of short works (in this case,
> one-liners) see Foxworthy v. Custom Tees, 879 F. Supp 1200, 1219.

The (not so?) obvious answer is to collect all the aphorisms together in a single volume, like Nietzsche did.

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<mscarpit[_at_]asnt.org> Received on Wed Aug 19 1998 - 03:17:24 GMT