thought for the week

    "If man has any 'natural' rights, not the least must     be a right to imitate his fellows, and thus to reap     where he has not sown. Education, after all, proceeds     from a kind of mimicry, and 'progress', if it is not     entirely an illusion, depends on generous indulgence     of copying."

        --Benjamin Kaplan, _An Unhurried View of Copyright_,
        Columbia University Press, New York, 1967, p. 2

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Timothy Phillips
<hrothgar[_at_]telepath.com> Received on Tue Jul 27 1999 - 23:23:25 GMT