Re: Internet Copyright

[Joni J Rathbun <jrathbun@OregonVOS.net>]

>explicitely say "FREE", etc. Internet copyright is a new frontier, but the
>thoughts and ideas posted on websites are given copyright status whether
>they say they are copyrighted or not. This includes graphics, specially
>written HTML script, java script, thoughts, ideas, etc., etc. If anyone

I am under the impression that thoughts and ideas cannot be
copyrighted. An essay expressing those thoughts and ideas
could be copyrighted, but the thoughts and ideas themselves,
no.

An idea could, perhaps, be patented??





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