Klarinet Archive - Posting 000832.txt from 2004/10

From: orm1ondtoby@-----.net (Ormondtoby Montoya)
Subj: Re: [kl] Mozart, Don Giovanni, and Tony Pay
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 14:32:08 -0400

Tony Wakefield wrote:

> I thought of it first - All Rights Reserved!

Heh! Humor aside, I believe that "plot ideas" are not copyrightable by
themselves. I believe that it's "the expression of an idea" that is
copyrighted --- that is, a detailed proposal or a completed work or
whatever. Thus two authors could write books which portrayed that
Salieri poisoned Mozart without being in violation of each other's
copyrights.

At least, that's how I understand it.

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