Re: Can you own the number 10.5% ?

On 2/2/99, John R. Levine <johnl[_at_]iecc.com> wrote:
>
> Shortly after the book came out, his publisher received a letter from
> Ibbotson Associates, who he'd never heard of until that point, saying
> that the 10.5% number was theirs since they were the only people doing
> long-term analysis of market returns, that was a number they'd
> calculated, and he'd misappropriated their proprietary number.

A good reminder that the world is filled with people who would, if they could, copyright the Bible, the works of Shakespeare and the alphabet and all of us would be paying license fees everytime we went to our keyboards or opened our mouths. Shame on the folks at Ibbotson Associates.

Oliver

Oliver Seely
<oliver[_at_]dhvx20.csudh.edu> Received on Wed Feb 03 1999 - 17:56:57 GMT