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ARTICLE · 21 FEBRUARY 2018

Judges Gonna Judge

No, I did not copy the headline from my colleague Dr. Alex Robinson (@Robinson_IP), who used it for his brilliant tweet.

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No, I did not copy the headline from my colleague Dr. Alex Robinson (@Robinson_IP), who used it for his brilliant tweet.

It was a parallel independent creation or an idea that was so obvious that both of us, and probably many more, spontaneously came up with it. I had already written the headline and parts of this article when I saw Alex´s tweet, and my first reaction was: 'Oh ...., now I have to change my headline.' But, on second thoughts, I decided to keep it because it shows exactly what Judge Fitzgerald meant in his decision, quoted below, on a copyright infringement case against Taylor Swift. If something is so obvious or banal that it suggests itself, it is not a copyrighted sentence, song lyric or headline.

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