Re: Pete!
From Pete Casso <pet...@sympatico.ca>
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· 25 Oct 1998 00:00 · View full thread
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Martin DiViaio wrote: > > Isn't there some need for profit from using a piece of copyrighted > material before it can be called a copyright violation? Posting malicious defacings constitute copyright violations, even if there is no money involved. > 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. ========================================================= [] .oo Visit the Gallery of the 'steins! [] [] ( -) http://www3.sympatico.ca/petecasso/ [] [] " " Frogstein, who has a point behind his eyes [] =========================================================
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,921b123e33ac0fc X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public From: Pete Casso <pet...@sympatico.ca> Subject: Re: Pete! Date: 1998/10/25 Message-ID: <363...@sympatico.ca>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 404912338 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <362C937C.1C92@c.a> <362...@lunatech.com> <v1PX1.60$Sf5...@skin03.micron.net> <909...@mnementh.southern.co.nz> <Pin...@leofric.coventry.ac.uk> <363...@sympatico.ca> <363...@bcgroup.net> <363...@sympatico.ca> <909...@mnementh.southern.co.nz> <363...@sympatico.ca> <909...@mnementh.southern.co.nz> <363...@erols.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: Frogstein and Birdstein Productions MIME-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 25 Oct 1998 12:17:58 EDT Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art
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