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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 25 Oct 1998.
Re: Pete!

Re: Pete!

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.

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[]   .oo     Visit the Gallery of the 'steins!         []
[]  (  -)   http://www3.sympatico.ca/petecasso/        []
[]   " "   Frogstein, who has a point behind his eyes  []
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Date: 1998/10/25
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