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.

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