At 10:03 PM 5/14/2002, Ryan S. Dancey wrote: >In this month's Wired magazine, there's a bit about a guy who wrote a Palm >Pilot application that crunched the numbers in the Weight Watchers >system. They C&D him on the pretext that they've "copyrighted the system" >of rating foods by "points" and then comparing those points to various >charts and tables to tell you if you've eaten too much for one day.
I was under the impression that, by definition, you could not copyright a *system*. You might be able to copyright the explicit point values, though, based on what you've said about the Blue Book case. _______________________________________________ Ogf-l mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.opengamingfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/ogf-l
