Posted by Patrick Nemwan on January 16, 2002 at 04:55:40 from 203.220.13.165:
In Reply to: Re: Royalties. was; who owns swallow? posted by Peter Roche on January 14, 2002 at 18:07:28:
I'll go for the percentage option, afterall x percent of nothing is
you know, nothing.
I also think you can't attempt copyrighting a word. I think "threepeat"
was attempted by one of the US media groups and it was shown legally you
can't. The honour of claiming a word's first use is about it and as it
wasn't intensional....
As a late attempt to get back on topic. I'm positive that the S & A
series starts some word's, "Galumphing" for example but if they made it
into the queens english, who knows.