9th July 2004, 8:46 AM
He didn't. Common phrases that precede some copyrighted work can't be copyrighted either. I also have to wonder if that's even true, what you just said, about him trying to. Sounds kinda mythy...
Oh and yes, that's right, if you make up a word right there, you can copyright it. I was talking about single already existing words.
It's all right here in this pamphlet.
http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ1.html
Oh and yes, that's right, if you make up a word right there, you can copyright it. I was talking about single already existing words.
It's all right here in this pamphlet.
http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ1.html
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)