December 13, 200817 yr As per this link. Google News pops up other reports. In short a Russia business man 'owns' the use of ; - ) for commerical use. I understand that things/ideas that are already in the public domain could not be copyrighted, maybe Russian copyright law differs? I think I will copyright use of the letter 'e' in commerical documents. I remember reading about copyrights that were claimed for images displayed in .JPG format and also the HTML hyperlink.
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