So I've been thinking a lot lately about Skin and the one-word tattoos and people's postings. Here's where I'm getting tripped up...ok she could have potentially asked that volunteers get sentences, paragraphs, pages, or even the whole text, I suppose, tattooed on their body. If someone copied one of the volunteer's tattoos, their tattoo would be seen as a copy, a reprinting of Jackson's work. But words are different...if someone copied someone's tattoo of a word you would not even necessarily assume that they were "copying" someone, and that word would not be seen as a reprinting of Jackson's work. Single words can't be claimed by single authors (although I guess you can make up a new word and take credit for it).