REM@MIT-MC@sri-unix.UUCP (09/14/83)
From: Robert Elton Maas <REM @ MIT-MC> It would seem that writing somebody's name on a star chart and copyrighting that sheet of paper would prevent anyone from making copies of that chart&name or of forging it by writing or printing the name again on another clone of that original chart. Thus it would be illegal to include that star with that name on any published star chart. That would seem to be just the opposite of what somebody wants when heesh has a star named after hir, namely requiring makers of star charts to include that name for that star.