I'm sure they won't, and I think Stan Ryckman's right that this is
about trademark, not copyright.

> In this case, it remains to be seen whether or not the court will
> allow Trump to copyright the phrase "you're fired" or even trademark
> that phrase.

The reason I raised it was to question the assertion that anything
finally stated is copyright: I heard someone from the Columbia Law
Library talking about copyright law at a conference last fall, and the
gist of what he said was that we all tend to drastically overestimate
what can be, or is, copyright.

-- Russ

Russell Hunt
Department of English
St. Thomas University
http://www.stu.ca/~hunt/