On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 12:56:16 +0800, Gideon N. Guillen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 12:15:42 +0800, Paolo Alexis Falcone > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > software creations. Heck - we don't patent art, books or newspaper > > Art... well, there's this thing called design patents.
Yeah... forgot about that one. Utility patents and inventions are the most usual form of patents. Afaik, methods used for generating designs cannot be patented with design patents. That would be tantamount to protecting the design process itself. Art as used in most cases is covered already by trademark and copyright laws. -- Paolo Alexis Falcone [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
