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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 10 Feb 1995.
Re: Ripping off Copyright (was Ascii Converter...)

Re: Ripping off Copyright (was Ascii Converter...)

 
In article <199...@dcs.warwick.ac.uk>, Fox (J.C...@dcs.warwick.ac.uk) writes:
>sc3...@rncb.demon.co.uk (Simon Collins) writes:
>>On the last point.  Can anybody make the picture in this sig better than it
>>is please.  Thanks if anybody can do this also.
>
>
>>     /^^\______________
>>     \~~/..........__..\
>>      \/\_____'<^ /  \*|
>>        /   \   \/|   \|
>>        |    \  / |
>
>
>>            FOX
>>            /|\
>>             |
>>COPYRIGHT (c) 1994, SIMON COLLINS
>
>I am disputing your claimed copyright to the above ascii fox drawing. I have
>used a practially identical one since before Summer 1993, and the fact that
>it appears that you have blatantly ripped it off a newsgroup or other source
>disgusts me greatly.  I don't care that you may have added a few things, but
>essntially it is the same.
>Oh, and if you don't believe me, I do have quite a few witnesses that knew me
>and my sig at that time.
>
>---
>
>/^^\__________  J.Doran (Farthing W Fox) - fo...@dcs.warwick.ac.uk
>\~~/          \   http://www.dcs.warwick.ac.uk/~fox/
> \/\____,<^ /\ |  <=- (c)1993!!! 
>   / \    \/| \|    "Lady, have you got your Lions crossed!"
>   |  \   / |                                    -  Timon - TLK
>

Hear, hear, wat's this copyright business anyway?!!
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-  
I'm working on this far out boneman that was posted recently. Let's
have some more dead stuff 

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From: sah...@acorn.win-uk.net (Steve Crisp)
Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art
Subject: Re: Ripping off Copyright (was Ascii Converter...)
Message-ID: <35...@acorn.win-uk.net>
Date: 10 Feb 95 19:29:41 GMT
References: <cpl...@rncb.demon.co.uk><199...@dcs.warwick.ac.uk>
Reply-To: sah...@acorn.win-uk.net (Steve Crisp)
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