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Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 14:59:09 +0100 (CET)
From: Dieter Demerre <ext DOT dieter DOT demerre AT siemens DOT be>
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Subject: Re: Copyrighting my DJGPP game
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On Sun, 28 Jan 2001, Jimbo wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Does anyone know how I would go about copyrighting the ideas for my game? I
> want to launch a website about it with a diary of its progress but I am
> worried about someone taking my ideas.

I'm sorry to inform you that ideas are NOT copyrightable according to
international law.  Ideas are free !!! Only implementation can be
copyrighted (following protection of authorship.

- -- Groetjes vanwege... Greetings from... --
- -- Dieter Demerre  ***  ddemerre AT acm DOT org --
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