Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #00720
To: Craig Maynard cybug@home.com
From: Steven Bolt sbolt@xs4all.nl
Date: Sun, 21 Feb 1999 08:17:09 +0100 (CET)
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: Regarding Copyright
On Sat, 20 Feb 1999, Craig Maynard wrote:
> Printed Circuit board artwork may also be copyrighted.
Or a chip layout. And software! That's even stranger, since
software comes rather close to being an idea.
> > On Sat, 20 Feb 1999, Ben M wrote:
> >
> > > The minute you publish something, it automatically becomes your idea and
> > > copyrighted by you.
> >
> > Your text, not your idea. It's not possible to copyright an idea.
> > A circuit diagram can be copyrighted - just the drawing. The
> > circuit drawn has to be protected by a patent.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
# sbolt@xs4all.nl # Steven Bolt # popular science monthly KIJK #
----------------------------------------------------------------------
------------------------------------------------------------------------
eGroup home: http://www.eGroups.com/list/alt-beam
Free Web-based e-mail groups by eGroups.com
Home