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From: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>
Subject: Re: implementing reiserfs in C++ for a new OS
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 00:51:06 -0700
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Markus T=F6rnqvist wrote:

>
>
>As for the poem translated into French, of course the original author
>has the copyright to his work, but the translator has the copyright
>to his translation.
>
The translator is infringing, if he does it without permission on a=20
copyrighted work (IANAL).

> The idea is untouched. What if the Greeks of old
>had patented, nay, copyrighted as some people think ideas should be
>copyrighted, the common structures of storytelling?
>
>Or maybe if we couldn't use the material from old mythology, because
>they are the intellectual property of someone else?
>What about those guys who lived 50 years after the Greeks and took
>ideas from them into their own mythos, before the copyrights would
>have expired?
>
> =20
>