From: "Ernest Lilley" <elilley at mindspring.com>
To: "'WSFA members'" <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Time Traveling Docs - any short stories come to mind?
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 02:58:01 -0400
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

OK...this horse is dead. Let's move on....RE: [WSFA] Re: Q: What do you call
two MDs who travel back in     time to cure pivotal figures and protect the
timeline?

Let's find something else to flog. Or at least turn this in a useful
direction. Are there any time travel MD short stories (I can think of one).

Ernest Lilley

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-----Original Message-----
From: thaughey [mailto:thaughey at acnet.net]
Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2005 12:35 AM
To: WSFA members
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Q: What do you call two MDs who travel back in time to cure pivotal figures and protect the timeline?

If neither a phrase or title can be copyrighted, then one wonders if a
book consisting of nothing but titles can be copyrighted.  Or is such a
book copyrighted without conferring copyright upon its constituant
parts?  That would really disappoint all those people who have stars
named after them.  --Tom Haughey

Mike B. wrote:

>At 07:47 PM 4/11/05 -0400, Colleen Cahill wrote:
>
>>Yes, Copyright has some interesting things in it.  At
>>http://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/ my favorite question is "Can I protect
>>my sighting of Elvis?"  Answer at
>>http://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/faq-protect.html#elvis.
>>
>
>When it comes to the PTO, never say never.  Given some of the patents they
>are issuing these days that violate the most basic requirements for
>patentability (such as obviousness to one skilled in the art, or prior art,
>etc.), particularly in the area of software patents, who knows what they
>will get up to when it comes to copyright?  Though in that case the courts
>would have to play a bigger role than they do with granting patents.  I can
>copyright anything for a fee...enforcement is another matter.  Patents are
>supposed to be prevented unless they are really patentable, but aren't
always.
>
>Maybe one episode of Ernest's new series can have one of the doctors trying
>to cash in on patents by registering medical equipment far enough in the
>past to beat the true inventors.  Stuff like the refrigeration system used
>in medical instruments to keep them well below room temperature, those
>"gowns" that are sized to fit everyone poorly regardless of body
>configuration, or those particularly nauseating shades of green and yellow
>that they use to paint the insides of hospitals.
>
>-- Mike B.
>