COPYRIGHT

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Bob

Guest
Just so you know, my Nick is copyrighted, and I was watchin' Christmas specials a few days ago, and this queer special comes on, (and it stunk, I've seen Maple trees less sappy than this crap) and it had a big fat rat known as the king of cheese!
I'M SUING!!!!!!!!!!
Bob nukes the imposter!!!
DIE VERMIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Nodnarb, go to the battle arena, with your rats to fight this disgrace to cheese and rats!!!!!!!!
 
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DÛke

Guest
...<pats Bob on the back> Sorry, but you'll not be able to do anything about it! :D
 
Ed Sullivan

Ed Sullivan

CPA Founder, Web Guy
Staff member
(Technicality)

You can't copyright a word. Only a work or intellectual property. You have to trademark a work or phrase, which you actually have to pay for, and you can get in trouble if you try to trademark something too broad. I'm 95% "King of Cheese" is too broad, unless you're specifying a brandname. And even so, you would only own the rights to it as a brandname. So someone could make a rat called the King of Cheese and you couldn't do anything about it.

:p
 
H

Hawaiian mage

Guest
We'll see about that...

I'm going to go create a company called "And", make millions, then copyright the name so no one can use it! Hwaa ha ha ha!
 
D

Duster

Guest
once again...ed amazes us all with the vastness of his knowledge.
I am humbled Mr Sullivan
 
H

Hetemti

Guest
All those named Bob should sue Microsoft for that damn program, for it spawned the Infernal Nazi Paperclips of DOOM that proliferate amongst all copies of Word.
 
S

Spiderman

Administrator
Staff member
So when Metallica is suing a furniture store over the name Metallika, it's because of the "brandname" or intellectual property that "Metallica" invokes, not the name itself?
 
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Spiderman

Administrator
Staff member
I only remember reading about the case a couple days ago so it's not too fresh in my mind. I was just trying to get it all straight...
 
S

Spiderman

Administrator
Staff member
Here I am, reading Wednesday's Washington Post, and in the Food section there's an article about the difficulty of protecting trademarks on the Internet (specifically, the name Derby Pie). Now, I don't know the exact difference between a trademark and a copyright without looking it up, but in the article it says "trademarks can be a word, a slogan, a logo, or even a color(!)... but once the public views the trademark as a generic word, the holder cannot protect it. Such was the case with aspirin, cellophane and escalator" (paraphrased). Surprisingly enough, these "words or phrases" ARE trademarked: Bake-Off, Bundt, Kettle Chips, Marshmellow Fluff, Popsicle, Tabasco, and Toll House (of course lots of others, these were just the examples).
 
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Spiderman

Administrator
Staff member
I love that brand! (oops, showing my domestic side...)

Xerox is probably another one that will fall soon...
 
R

Ransac

CPA Trash Man
*Ransac snaps his fingers(which is now trademarked) and everyone is wearing black clothing.*

I can see where bob is upset. His nickname is like his catch-phrase. It makes him unique. I like my nickname, cpa trash man, and I would take great offense if anybody changed their nickname to that. It's what makes me unique. That finger snapping thing I do, it's what makes me unique. The butt-slapping that K9Archmage does, it's what makes him unique. The "greater good fanatic" thing that Zadok001 does, it's what makes hi unique. That's MY point of view. I enjoy doing these things because I thought of them first. I used them first. I made them part of me. Do you think the Rock would take kindly to anyone that refer's to themself as the People's Champ? I think not. If you like someone else's catchphrase, let them keep it. You like it because it was creative and they thought hard to make it likable. Let's originality stay where it should, to whoever thinks it up.



Ransac, cpa trash man
 
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