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From: "Barry B. Bean"
Date: Thu, 05 Sep 96 11:53:35 -0500
Subject: Re: copyright

On Thu, 5 Sep 1996 11:36:24 -0400, JfGindi~ol.com wrote:

>Seems to me that you can't be writing into a
>forum filled with writers and expect your ideas to still "belong" to you.
>There are degrees of everything, of course. Plus, I don't think ideas are
>copyrightable, only words. Any thoughts? Jon

I think common sense has to come into play here. Obviously we all
interact with other people, other writers, other musicians, etc.
Equally obviously (to me, at least) is that our own ideas and
opinions are a product of these encounters mixed withour own
experience.

What I think we have to weigh when we write is the relative
importance of someone else's idea and our own experience or
independent thought in producing a particular idea. In the example
you cited, overblows have been discussed to such an extent in nearly
every forum available to harmonica players that I wouldn't have felt
obliged to credit a casual conversation.

However, if it was a truly original idea, a completely new
perspective, or an especially well thought-out argument, I'd credit
it. If, for instance, you were to tell me that you had mastered
overblows of putting your left big toe in your belly button, I'd give
you credit. If you simply said that you thought of overblows as a
sort of reversed bend, I wouldn't feel obliged to mention your name.

BBB


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