Re: Pete!

.----- On Sun, 25 Oct 1998 17:17:58 GMT, Pete Casso posted:
|Martin DiViaio wrote:
|> One thing I do know about copyright law is that it would be impossible
|> for Mr. Casso to copyright the Stein characters. The cartoons mabye but
|> not the characters. Simply because the characters are too small and made
|> up of too few ASCII characters.
|
|There are no requirement on size or number of characters. There are
|requirements on originality, recognizability, uniqueness. Look at other
|cartoon characters which are made of a few pencil strokes, the fewer the
|better in fact.
|
'-------------------------

My cartoon characters aren`t that much bigger than Pete's:



                                            |\.----.   The Fish
                   |||||                    |     ' >
                  | o o |                   |/`----`        .----./|
                  |  >  |                                  < '     |
                  | \_/ |                                   `----`\|
                   \___/ Martin Atkins
                    | |     aka mga
                                                                 %%%@%
        |||||         |_|  /\  |") |") \ /   /" "|" |_|         |o )@%%
       | o o |        | | /""\ |"  |"   |    _)  |  | |         <    @%
       |  >  |                                                  |-'   |
       | \_/ |   /\  |\ | |\ | "|" \ / [" |") ("  /\  |") \ /    \___/
        \___/   /""\ | \| | \| _|_  V  |_ |"\ _) /""\ |"\  |      | |
       __| |__        _ _                _ _              _      James
      /  \ /  \  __ _| | |_   __ _ _____(_|_)___ __ _ _ _| |_
 Dave | | ' | | / _` | |  _|_/ _` (_-< _| | |___/ _` | '_|  _|
                \__,_|_|\__(_)__,_/__|__|_|_|   \__,_|_|  \__|

                    From Martin Atkins and all of his
         .....          ascii cartoon characters!    |||||
        . o o .                                     | o o |
        .  >  .                         ((())      ||  >  ||
        | --- |    __o__               ( o o )     || \_/ ||
         \___/    /-----\             ((  >  ))    /|\___/|/
        __| |__   | o o |             (( \_/ ))     |_| |_|
                  |  >  |             ((\___/))    /  |`|  \
        The       | --- |              __| |__     | /"U"\ |
           bARMY   \___/              /  '-'  \       Lisa
                  __| |__             |_/   \_|
                                     Lisa`s Mate

(from my anniversary posting!)


But I would still get angry if anyone meliciously defaced them. I suppose I
am stating copyright, although up till now I have just assumed intelectual
copyright. My copyright requirements are much the same as Pete's... I don`t
mind people making up stories for the characters, so long as no insult or
'piss taking' is involved.
Colin ..... I don`t mind if you want to compare James 'n' Dave to "silly
cows"! (although I suspect you wouldn`t want to)

Bye!

-Martin

(This is a light hearted message, and nothing I have said about anyone is
intended to be taken too seriously - but my fair copyright conditions are
fairly serious comments. Please don`t start defacing my toons and insulting
me as a result of this message... no insult is intended.)
|\/| _..__|_o._   /\_|_| o._  _   mart.atkins@--
|  |(_||  |_|| | /--\|_|<|| |_>            --bigfoot.com

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