Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site dciem.UUCP Path: utzoo!dciem!ntt From: ntt@dciem.UUCP (Mark Brader) Newsgroups: net.jokes.d Subject: Credit where it is due... (more copyright infringement, I fear) Message-ID: <951@dciem.UUCP> Date: Thu, 14-Jun-84 13:48:27 EDT Article-I.D.: dciem.951 Posted: Thu Jun 14 13:48:27 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 14-Jun-84 16:37:05 EDT References: <1283@decwrl.UUCP>, <345@ih1ap.UUCP> Organization: NTT Systems Inc., Toronto, Canada Lines: 14 The long joke posted by dec-vaxuum!dyer titled "The Jews of Rome (Not Offensive?)" is from "Isaac Asimov's Treasury of Humor" by Isaac Asimov. Of course, the concept of a joke is not copyrightable, but in this case, as far as I can remember the book version, the item posted to the net uses exactly the same words, and is therefore (c) Isaac Asimov. Stop that! David L. Pope (ih1ap!weutil)'s proposal that "GOOD JOKES are of extra- terrestrial origin" may have been an independent thought of his, but in fact this ALSO has been said by Asimov - it's the premise of a short story of his. Nothing illegal here, of course. (Sorry, I can't remember the title, but I don't think net.jokes.d cares about that.) Mark Brader Flames to /dev/null