_I_ know what copyright covers - but reading some of the weird cases in the 
States about the RIAA for example, and knowing that the RIAA (and the MPAA) 
is the source of much of what passes for "copyright" law these days - much as 
the big computer companies in the States are the source of what passes 
for "patent" law these days, I would not put it past people to attempt to 
game the system in that way.  The system is built to be gamed.

Wesley Parish

On Thursday 10 April 2008 10:26, Nick Rout wrote:
> On Wed, April 9, 2008 9:14 pm, Wesley Parish wrote:
> > And what happens if I write a story where that happens, and decide that
> > the
> > government has infringed my copyright by enacting a fictitious happening
> > in
> > real life?  Without receiving a license from the author to do that a la a
> > movie adaption agreement?
> >
> > You can't reason with some people, can you?
>
> Some people have some weird odeas on what copyright covers!

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Gaul is quartered into three halves.  Things which are 
impossible are equal to each other.  Guerrilla 
warfare means up to their monkey tricks. 
Extracts from "Schoolboy Howlers" - the collective wisdom 
of the foolish.
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Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui?
You ask, what is the most important thing?
Maku e ki, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata.
I reply, it is people, it is people, it is people.

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