Surely that can't be under copyright

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Today is payday, and I have just received my payslip. At the bottom of said slip it says:

PLEASE KEEP THIS PAY ADVICE IN A SAFE PLACE. IT MAY BE REQUIRED FOR THE PURPOSE OF SELF-ASSESSMENT. ©

How can that sentence be copyright? Or is it merely the the idea of self assessment which is subject to the © ? Someone explain this baizarreness to me, and show me more strange copyrights.

― Pete, Friday, 30 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Payday you say? Hmmm.

― Tom, Friday, 30 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Um, yes but unfortunately due to a massive admin cock-up I haven't actually been paid today. Ahem.

(Does a Roger The Dodger style wink whilst say out of the box "Do you think he'll fall for that readers?")

― Pete, Friday, 30 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

"Ha ha readers with the money I've saved on not buying rounds I've made TEN POUNDS!"

"Oh, it's Pete The Dodger! Pete with your so-called pub quiz you persuaded Alan to take a night bus through the heart of the sun. It's damaged beyond repair! You'll have to pay ten pounds!"

"Bah!"

― Tom, Friday, 30 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Has Pete joined the cast of Heartbeat as a replacement Greengrass?

― Emma, Friday, 30 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

curses, foiled again. you rotter.

― Alan Trewartha, Friday, 30 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

groo, even

― Alan Trewartha, Friday, 30 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Pete -- the new Snidely Whiplash.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 30 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

thirteen years pass...

"Happy Birthday" may finally be liberated...

http://arstechnica.com/apple/2015/07/filmmakers-fighting-happy-birthday-copyright-find-their-smoking-gun/

― sleeve, Tuesday, 28 July 2015 14:54 (eight years ago) link

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