Re: ASCII Consortium

From: John Cowan (cowan@locke.ccil.org)
Date: Tue Sep 14 1999 - 10:11:53 EDT


F. Avery Bishop scripsit:

> OK it was a rip-off [...].

Actually, no. In the U.S., at least, it would be a legally protected
parody, which is allowed to use some of the elements of the work being
parodied without breaching the copyright.

-- 
John Cowan                                   cowan@ccil.org
       I am a member of a civilization. --David Brin



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