daveb@geac.UUCP (Brown) (08/12/87)
>In article <944@bsu-cs.UUCP>, dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi) writes: >> A good way of preserving a copyright on collections of items that >> individually cannot be copyrighted is to include a few red herrings >> that could not be there by chance.... Similarly, I've heard that >> dictionaries include a few authentic-sounding nonsense words that were >> created by the publisher. This is also often used on maps, but the technique is subtler: a road junction is malformed to look (subtely) different than on the underlying topo maps. This can, of course, be taken to extremes: the tourist map of PEI (Prince Edward Island) contains a number of blatant lies... -- David Collier-Brown. | Computer Science Geac Computers International Inc., | loses its memory 350 Steelcase Road,Markham, Ontario, | (if not its mind) CANADA, L3R 1B3 (416) 475-0525 x3279 | every 6 months.