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to: WARD DOSSCHE
from: BJRN FELTEN
date: 2018-11-08 21:38:00
subject: Copyright issues

 WD> Nope. For the simple fact that a copyright infringement in one country
 WD> may very well be OK in another country. The plaintiff has no leg to
 WD> stand on.

   Common for all countries that I know of is the threshold of originality
demand. You cannot just scribble down some text on a napkin and claim
copyright.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threshold_of_originality

   In the FTS-1 case it's obvious, even by the "author's" own admission -- in
the two last sections (K and L) -- that almost nothing in the 
document is Randy's own work, it's just a collection of other people's work. No
originality what so ever...


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