[r-t] Ben Constant's Yorkshire Royal
Ted Steele
ted.steele at tesco.net
Fri Jan 16 16:26:00 UTC 2009
John Camp wrote:
>
> A patent needs 'novelty', whereas copyright needs 'originality'.
> These are different. 'Novel' means no-one's done it before;
> 'original' means 'all your own work'.
I think it's probably fairly well accepted now that all methods exist in
theory and only remain to be discovered in practice. If this is true of
methods then why not also of the essentially simple extensions of
methods into peals by means of calls? In fact, since the very much
greater part of every peal is produced according the rules of the
methods involved rather than by the calls how can anyone properly claim
a peal as original by John's definition unless they also discovered the
method?
Ted
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