[thelist] Am I being too fussy?

[Richard H. Morris]

john-paul [jwalton at four09.org] wrote:

> -----Original Message-----
> what, you have exclusive rights to right-hand column of text
> with left-hand
> image? jeez... ;) c'mon, now... the design in question is
> pretty generic,
> after all. (Don't get me wrong, i like it, nice and clean...)

I think that's probably about right.

> at any rate these design-ripoffs are funny, but at most its
> unethical. There
> is no legal reason why somebody can't completely rip you off.
>
> Hard to believe, but last I heard, you can't actually
> copyright "design".

Try using the famous "golden arches" for an 'M' on one of your web sites
and then see if you're right...

Besides, the original coding and images can of course by copyrighted and
protected by legislation in the UK, the US and elsewhere either by
statute or by convention.

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