Fashion Board 2-3-04 to 3-5-04

[baltassoc]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
How the fuck can someone copyright a complaint?

All complaints (indeed, all written expressions) are protected by copyright law. Subject, of course, to the merger doctrine (there are only so many ways to plead an unjust enrichment claim, for example, so good luck bringing an infringment claim when two complaints are almost identical).

I imagine your real question is probably, "How big a tool do you have to be to put a copyright notice on your complaint, let alone contemplate that someone might copy it?"