| From: | Jeremy Roberson <ROBERSON@***.EDU> |
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| Subject: | Copyrights & Cyberthwaps |
| Date: | Fri, 16 Apr 1993 16:58:21 -0700 |
itbe taken somewhere else, but the opportunity is just
too good to pass up.
Around 2:00 in the morning, Hahn, Carter, and I were discussing some of the
sillier things that have come up on both Shadowrun and Shadowtalk. Eventually,
conversation drifted to thwaps and dikoting. On the spur of the moment, I
mentioned that a real idiot should get hit with a dikoted thwap. There were
laughs all around.
So the concept of the Dikoted Thwap was out, known only to me, Carter,
and Hahn, as well as one other identified only as, "Budke".
Now, as Dr. Doom, can attest, I "posted" the first Dikoted Thwap, to
him personally. All I did was edit his and put "*" and "d" around it
and wrote
a short blurb describing it as "Product-Improved". I sent it only to Doom as
a courtesy since he provided the original one, and planned to send the other
one later.
Two hours later, I witnessed Hahn send his (which he typed up himself)
to the general list.
Now, we have two dikoted thwaps.
The Dikoted thwap is an idea, and CANNOT be copyrighted.
My Thwap is my thwap, and even though it is based on Doom's
it's my copyright.
Hahn's Thwap is his thwap, and he has the rights to it.
Anyone else can come up with their own dikoted thwap, and as long as
it is different from the rest it is yours. An analogy can be made to the
wheel;
the wheel, as a concept, can't be copyrighted, but the various versions
(Goodyear radials, etc) can be.
J Roberson
I'd rather be a Decker than a Mage
Yes I would
If I only could
I surely would
--El Condor Pasa
Simon Garfunkel, 2052
