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From: dasher@netcom.com (Anton Sherwood)
Subject: Re: TROLL  was "TANAKA Tomoyuki, Racism, and Offense-Taking"
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Organization: That would be telling.
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Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1997 00:27:12 GMT
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Costing the net hundreds if not thousands of dollars,
: Bridgewalker J, the 'Chestnut Cockatiel' wrote:

	[some mild flamage, two or three quotes deep]

: > --
: > Bridgewalker J, the Chestnut Cockatiel, who is African-American.
: >       [ Copyright () 1997 Bridgewalking Enterprises. ]

Ronald D. Cuthbertson <inmark@flash.net> says:
: How can you copyright other people's work? The quotes are protected
: under international copyright treaties, with OR without a copyright 
: notice. Or is just your name copyrighted?

It's a compilation copyright.  Bridgewalker claims copyright not over
any of the quotes themselves but over their collection and arrangement.
-- 
Anton Sherwood   *\\*   +1 415 267 0685   *\\*   DASher@netcom.com
"America is at that awkward stage.  It's too late to work within 
the system, but too early to shoot the bastards." --Claire Wolfe
