Wouter van Ooijen wrote:

>> Abstract ideas can't be copyrighted either (althought many are wrongly
>> patented).
> 
> Sorry, you don't seem to understand copyright. It is about the text
> itself, not what the text means. If I describe something and have
> copyright on that text, you can describe the same thing *in your own
> words* and have a completly independent copyright on your text.

Isn't that the exact same thing Marc wrote? Abstract ideas can't be
copyrighted, only a specific formulation of the ideas...

So why would you say that this shows that he doesn't seem to understand
copyright?!?

Gerhard

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