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[ramon@jl1.quim.ucm.es (Ram'on Garc'ia Fern'andez)]

Since most of us do not understand Spanish, here is a translation.

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I would like to comment a lawsuit in Argentina where 
in 1974 an IDEA was given legal protection.

The protection was given through copyright.

The case is "PANTANO/JOCKEY". Here are some of the
reasons of the judges:

"an idea, as soon as acquires a positive expression and
has, although to a minimal extent, the features of creativity
and originality, can be subject to copyright protection.
In this case it is not a blurred idea of an abstract thought
in the brain of the author, but a original, creative,
individualized and revealed in system that is an independent
and original work, and therefore, deserves legal protection"

"The creation of the author that is modesty and improperly named as
"idea" is that and something more than that, because what was offered
to the defendant was the material realization of his thought,
was his intellectual work included in the list of examples
of the Argentinian statute of copyright"

Thank you for reading me.