On Thursday, November 2, 2000, Mike Goad <[email protected]> wrote: > The 1976 Act further identifies those specific elements of a work not > eligible for copyright protection: "In no case does copyright protection > for an original work of authorship extend to any idea, procedure, > process, system, method of operation, concept, principle, or discovery, > regardless of the form in which it is described, explained, illustrated, or > embodied in such work."1 Just to add, these "ideas", etc., if original, not obvious, and not already in public use, could be used to obtain a patent. S R C A cott obert ranston nderson [email protected]