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/