Copyrighting trivial code

[ark at alice.UUCP]

In article <812 at imagen.UUCP>, jay at imagen.UUCP writes:
> Even worse -- A co-worker of mine has a roll of little round adhesive
> stickers for marking master copies of things.  Each sticker has the
> word "MASTER" on it and a copyright symbol.

I don't see any problem with that!  Of course, it is senseless to
copyright a single word -- but entirely reasonable to copyright the
design of the label: choice of colors, typeface, layout, and so on.