Hi, On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 11:47:52AM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > Emile van Bergen writes: > > I'd say that the definition of Unicode, heck even ASCII, involves a fair > > amount of creativity. > > I don't doubt that the development of Unicode involved creativity: under > current law it probably qualifies as a patentable invention. Inventions > and ideas, however, cannot be copyrighted: only creative works reduced to > tangible form can. I'm arguing that the _creation_ _of_ _that_ _table_ > involved no creativity, not that the invention of Unicode didn't. Well, so you say that if I write a novel, all my creativity is in the abstract idea; putting the words down involved no extra creativity; thus the sequence of words cannot be copyrighted? I think your argument doesn't help here... > Is it possible to create other Unicode tables that serve the same purpose > as that one and differ from it non-trivially? Good question. Under your reasoning, merely writing the list down from the unicode spec, possibly using | as separators instead of :, should do the trick. Cheers, Emile. -- E-Advies / Emile van Bergen | emile@e-advies.info tel. +31 (0)70 3906153 | http://www.e-advies.info
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