[rumori] Jefferson's song


From: Don Joyce (djATwebbnet.com)
Date: Tue Jul 03 2001 - 18:51:31 PDT


Forwarded by Negativland.

>
>As Jefferson wrote of copyright, "Its peculiar character,
>too, is that no one possesses the less, because every other
>possesses the whole of it. He who receives an idea from
>me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as
>he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without
>darkening me."
>
>One may not copyright a title or an idea -- "an idea" is
>NOT a completed, thought out, intricately arranged
>BODY of ideas called a song. I, personally, don't think
>Jefferson would have confused the two.
>
>Janet Fisher
>www.goodnightkiss.com/jacksegal.html
>
>
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