Tuesday, February 27, 2007

BBQ and patent law


(The Boy was looking somewhat confused while waiting for his chicken fingers to arrive at Sonny's BBQ a few months back. He was tracing the picture of the rotund Sonny's BBQ man on the kid's menu and adressed a question to his 20 year old cousin)
"Why does the little Sonny's man have an 'R' with a circle around it, right here near his cowboy boot?"

(cousin, trying to formulate a simplistic answer for a child) "Um, that 'R' means that no one can copy this picture."

(The Boy, still tracing the Sonny's man) "Then, shouldn't it be a 'C' with a circle for copyright?"

Whole table sitting in stunned silence as he continues to color.

1 comment:

Kirk said...

funny he had no concern over whether he should continue to illegally copy it or not.