Subject: Re: unofficial poll about new logo
To: Johnny Billquist <bqt@Update.UU.SE>
From: Richard Earnshaw <rearnsha@netbsd.org>
List: current-users
Date: 11/01/2004 15:22:06
On Mon, 2004-11-01 at 14:24, Johnny Billquist wrote:

> I'm not a lawyer either. But copyrights are rather specific, aren't they? 
> I mean, you can hardly claim copyright to every rendition of a demon just 
> because you've drawn one, which you do have copyright on.

As I understand it, copyright does cover the concept of derived works. 
Otherwise you could take some image, leave every detail but one
unchanged and claim to have something new.

R.