From: "Frank Haber" 

Ah, but is black a pattern?  Is black a color, or just an absence, a
negation?  Is black intellectual property?  Is it a trade secret, and may I
keep the secret to blackness in a vault, or is it a kind of Heart of
Darkaness, and does it become public domain in 26^H^H 52^H^H 75^H^H 100
years?

A puzzlement.  I don't think the answer is patently obvious, although it is
glossy and black.

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