From: frantz@netcom.com (Bill Frantz)
Date: Wed, 29 May 1996 12:20:41 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Philosophy of information ownership [ Re: Children's	  Privacy Act ]
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At 09:24 AM 5/27/96 -0500, Mike McNally wrote:

>What if I just *see* your couch, and then back in my garage I use my
>couch replicator to make a couch just like yours, complete with fuzzballs
>and loose change between the cushions?  Now I have your couch, in a sense.
>Are you still upset?

If the couch design is copyrighted, you have just violated the copyright :-).


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