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 :soapy tit wank:

Must have been spening time with Trundle.

? :shrug: I don't get it?

Nor me  :shrug:

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Spencer forgot the © in the thread title, please don't sue Whits for this oversight...

(see the OS for yesterdays team sheet blinkers)

i c now

When I asked that last week I was toldy you can't copywright a name.

Hope this helps on saving you the cost of a stamp in seeking expressed written permission to use his name.

golly that's a laugh riot

Shut up.

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there's no official process for copywriting stuff in this country. If you create something then you own the copyright to it automatically. You can Trademark names though

There are things you can do to bolster your claim in the event of a dispute tho - dunno if it still applies but there always used to be (up to early 90s at least) as semi-official thing of sending a copy of written works to the Bodleian and the British Library as a way of "registering" copyright.

Christ, I'm sending myself to sleep here

From what I remember it's about proving that you wrote something on a certain date. I think that posting something to yourself with registered post and not opening it is a classic way of doing it. I don't really know to be honest.

[©] Yep. Authors and scriptwriters etc.. send copies of their work to themselves in case there idea get's nicked. They can then prove when they wrote it. [/©]

But that wouldn't prove anything other than that they'd sent themselves a letter/package on such and such a date. It would prove nothing about the contents of the package (which is what they're trying to protect). That's why the Bodleian/British Library thing is/was used - as then they can point to the Library Catalog to establish it existed from at least that time (that it was catalogued)

If a case of 'you nicked my idea' went to court, the package can be opened in front of a judge to prove that what's inside (the authors work), was written at said date.

A "serious" discussion about the application of Copyright laws is not something I would have expected to spring up in the middle of the players section on the TEF!!!

Amazing.

I'd just post someone elses stuff to myself and hope they already hadnt.

If I wasnt a total creative vaccum that is.

Aah. I think that was the bit I was missing.

OK, so now we've done copyright, hands up who thinks software patents are too open to abuse to stifle innovation and the ramifications are insufficiently understood by legislators? Hmmm, thought so.

Of course it can be argued that it gives an incentive for investment into research.

Meh possibly the most boring module I ever did at university. I can't really remember much of it, I think I did an essay whilst drunk.

i agree.

i don't like it.

The government recommends you do what Sussex suggested - post it to yourself. You can get a soliciter to keep the document/material for you or put it in a bank deposit box (which is essentially like the library idea) but this probably wouldn't be any benefit when trying to prove original works in court.

Anyhoo, I can't believe the thread went this far:

You can't copywrite a name (does this word even exist?) and you can't copyright a name.

You can trademark a name: refer to the Elvis Presley v Sid Shaw case.