Sueable Offence?

[Questa]

Originally posted by konidias


You can't copyright a name, a name gets trademarked.

Errr whatever. I'm no lawyer

[konidias]

Originally posted by Questa

Errr whatever. I'm no lawyer

People just get confused because they see stuff like "Copyright Nintendo" or something, but the copyright is to the company not the name.

When you see the name of something on a product it will usually have a small "TM" near it, and sometimes "R" which I think is for registered trademark? I'm not sure on that one... heheh. I'm no lawyer either. ;P

[Questa]

Originally posted by konidias


People just get confused because they see stuff like "Copyright Nintendo" or something, but the copyright is to the company not the name.

When you see the name of something on a product it will usually have a small "TM" near it, and sometimes "R" which I think is for registered trademark? I'm not sure on that one... heheh. I'm no lawyer either. ;P

Stupid laws. can't we just run through a utopia in our birthday suits? now that's something I want trademarked ;D

[zell12]

Originally posted by Falados
And you cant copyright an idea.

People pay ALOT of money to patent ideas, so yes, you can.

[PrinceDark]

Doesn't Chrisz manage Era? Did he quit or is he just working on something on the side while he works on Era?

[MilkyWay0016]

Originally posted by mhermher

And i were talking to Angel when she was revewing it, she showed me some screens... and you kinda... stole Era's tileset...

Maybe I'm behind the times, but didn't Era take graphics from another server? I mean, wouldn't sueing someone for doing the same thing you did to someone else be, I dunno, hyprocritical?

I'm probably just not caught up on all the news, though.

[magicbud3344]

jesus, it's crybaby pansies like you that piss me off
wha wha wha sue this, can i sue that, stop or i'll sue you
shut the hell up!

[LOA--Paul]

Originally posted by magicbud3344
jesus, it's crybaby pansies like you that piss me off
wha wha wha sue this, can i sue that, stop or i'll sue you
shut the hell up!

Like Chrisz you mean? It's not the thread starter thats yelling hes going to do the sueing

[Juron Pilo]

I'd like to point out were talking IDEAS here... graal only covered copywrites(copywrites are AUTOMATIC).. if he patented his idea then its cool... he can take the guy to court over it... he still owns the idea

[melissa1988]

No, you can't copyright ideas. You can only patent ideas. There's a big difference

[tlf288]

I looked into patenting something before and it is very expensive. I forget the website but patents.gov seems right. Ofcourse, this is for US citizens I beleive.

[Juron Pilo]

Originally posted by melissa1988
No, you can't copyright ideas. You can only patent ideas. There's a big difference

I fail to see how you have contradicted me

Originally posted by tlf288
I looked into patenting something before and it is very expensive. I forget the website but patents.gov seems right. Ofcourse, this is for US citizens I beleive.

Really? being that were supposed to be encouraging new ideas I find that hard to... what is the word I want? not believe... I can believe anything of a politician... for instance: http://www.publicintegrity.org/dtawe...L3=0&L4=0&L5=0

[NovaNET]

According to federal copyright law anything you create that is orignal is immediatly copyrighted to you. Now from my understanding graal takes ownership of such... now if graal doesnt make you sign a contract or agreement then legally your under no obligations and the stuff you submit to them is still yours.

internet agreements (you need to literally sign a paper) are not sufficient for any courts that i am aware of. But then again i dont know how they go about making such a agreement with all the playerworld owners.

[Aeros3]

*cough* EULA *cough*

[TheFrozenFiend]

Originally posted by Spark910

ALSO may I add it costs $200+ a month to copyright a 500pg website, and so copyrighting all of them images and levels would cost too much.

I dont know if anybody has mentioned this (I didnt look through all the posts) but copyrighting is free.

What?

If you have created something then it is copyrighted. You dont need to send your work off or anything like that.
Did you create source code? A website? Graphics? If you did then it is already copyrighted to you.
However, unless Im mistaken, there is something in the Graal terms that says that anything you submit to Graal becomes their property. So if you submit something to Graal then you legally give up that copyright. If somebody then steals it you cannot do anything about it because you have gave the copyright to Graal. Graal, however, could do something about it. But why would they? Its not like it matters to them, especially if whats been stolen is being used to help them.

Im not sure about copyrighting ideas though, and Im pretty sure its not automatic like everything else.