Re: Microsoft needs a help strategy

[amicus_curious]

"Chris Ahlstrom" <ahlstromc@launchmodem.com> wrote in message 
news:lO8gl.3064$19.182@bignews5.bellsouth.net...
> After takin' a swig o' grog, Peter Köhlmann belched out
>  this bit o' wisdom:
>
> > amicus_curious wrote:
> >
> > > "Chris Ahlstrom" <ahlstromc@launchmodem.com> wrote in message
> > > news:Qq5gl.2878$o9.345@bignews2.bellsouth.net...
> > > > He doesn't know that his own word here are automatically copyrighted.
> > > I think that you are wrong.
> >
> > You don't "think"
> > For tasks like that one needs working brains
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright#Berne_Convention_for_the_Protection_of_Literary_and_Artistic_Works
"Copyright may apply to a wide range of creative, intellectual, or artistic 
forms, or "works". Specifics vary by jurisdiction, but these can include 
poems, theses, plays, other literary works, movies, dances, musical 
compositions, audio recordings, paintings, drawings, sculptures, 
photographs, software, radio and television and broadcasts."

Are you saying that Kastrup's letters are creative, intellectual, and/or 
artistic works?  Somehow, I doubt that he could pass muster in a court, 
based on his rather clumsy prose presented to the newsgroup.  But you can 
hypothesize all you wish.