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Subject:Re: Styles for User Guides From:Sharon Burton-Hardin <sharonburton -at- EMAIL -dot- MSN -dot- COM> Date:Tue, 6 Apr 1999 20:32:12 -0700
Indeed, a most comprehensive discussion of copyright. Thank you and I shall
keep it for future reference.
I suppose that, from a legal point of view, Adobe or MS could probably make
it stick, but to what point? What would they win, really?
sharon
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|One point: since many templates are created with Word or Frame, could not a
case
|be made by Microsoft or Adobe, should they wish to do so, that the work
created
|by using those templates is partially covered by their copyright of the
program?
|Or is this just too murky an area to want to explore?
