pugdog
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Nov 20, 2003, 4:36 PM
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Hello!
I was talking about this (again) a few days ago :)
It was in response to a response to a letter in Wire Artist Magazine about copyright. It's amazing how many people -- especially authorities -- get it WRONG!! :)
You can't copyright a design. Only the "item" itself. This is a tough concept. You can also copyright the diagrams, directions, etc., but only to the point of the actual words/layout.
People often resort to Disney and their license on kits. The reason Disney can do it (besides having more money than even Bill Gates), is that they have TRADEMARKS on the characters, logos, etc. TRADEMARKS are where the problems lay.
So, while this is not a copyright lesson -- though we could start one :) (I was/have been involved in many, many intellectual rights forums since the first days of computers and BBS's, especially in the area of IMAGE/GRAPHIC copyright.), I do want to point out that there is so much misinformation that it's almost laughable.
I *think* I posed a "vent" here a few months ago about one of the other forums on-line where the ladies (I use that term pointedly and loosely) would come back after a weekend show, and complain that someone looked at one of their items too long, or similar silliness. They were venting bile about how rude it was and horrible, and how they wanted to draw and quarter the person -- then in the next breath talk about how badly they did at the show <G>! Maybe their hostility showed through? Anyway. One of major pet peves, and why I don't usually participate in "foreign" forums ;)
Also, it's amazing how when you do some research you can find similar (or the same) designs these people are griping about being stolen from them in some other magazine, old photos, etc.
Minor differences aside, there is _very_ little new. It's recombination of old.
Anyway :)
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