That case and that book

[nrenka]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Goddlefrood" <gav_fiji at ...>
wrote:

> Goddlefrood:
> 
> Time is relative and it's always time for a drink somewhere. Thus I 
> can justify raising a whisky and soda at 10 in the morning, on the 
> increasingly rare occasions I do.
> 
> Thanks for the efforts. It further supports my stated opinion that 
> if there is a judgment then JKR will prevail.

Aww, thanks.  I live to cite.

Just to add to the discussion about 'ideas', let me cite the Copyright
Office website on what you cannot copyright:

"Ideas, procedures, methods, systems, processes, concepts, principles,
discoveries, or devices, as distinguished from a description,
explanation, or illustration"

http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ1.html#wnp

That seems to me to be saying that, for instance, you can't copyright
your thesis about the influence of technology on city planning in the
1970s, or the influence of Greek tragedy on 19th century opera
composers (although anyone who uses your ideas should cite you
properly).  It doesn't seem to properly label many aspects of works of
fiction or other artistic endeavors, which is what we're debating there.