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Subject:Re: Copyright issues on Tufte's examples From:Marguerite Krupp <mkrupp -at- WORLD -dot- STD -dot- COM> Date:Tue, 14 Feb 1995 08:45:07 +0001
On Mon, 13 Feb 1995, SES Authoring Tools - 381-1732 - ZKO1-2 wrote:
> [excerpted] But all the words
> Tufte uses to describe the chart are his, and Tufte holds the copyright
> to those words.... Just a nit.
Another nit: Tufte doesn't hold the copyright to the words, just to the
unique arrangement of them. You and I can freely use the same words
differently arranged, and get our own copyright on them.
