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> But who is the "Webster" in this case? Even the name "Webster"
> is available for anyone to use. I assume the letter actually came
> from the publisher of a particular version of Webster's from which
> the graphic, etc. had been copied?
It sounds like the ad's graphic was actually a "screen shot" ;-) of
actual text from Webster's dictionary. If so, it *does* seem like a big
hairy copyright violation to me, since you can't just take a piece of
someone else's work and put it in your ad without getting permission
(unless you can somehow make it fit under the fair use guidelines).
