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Geek Culture / Suggestions on Copyright

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SuperCort2003
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Hey everyone! Man has it been a long time since I've been on the forums. (I wonder if anyone here's missed me? J/K ) Newayz uhh......hey uhh......I have a question about copyright. I don't want to copyright a game, what I want to copyright is pictures like cartoon characters. See I have a big group of characters like a team but how would I go about copyrighting the image so I could share them to the world and so no one would steal my work. Suggestions........?

Being a superhero is all but boring....
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Ian T
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Posted: 1st Oct 2003 00:47
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It's automatically your copyright due to international intellectual copyright laws passed some time in the 90s. You have every right to threaten and even launch a 'suit if someone steals it and says it is their own. Intellectual copyright dosen't hold a penny to registered copyrights however, so you can't steal something, change the face, and assume it'll be protected by intellectual copyright .

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Andrew
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Posted: 1st Oct 2003 00:51
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I know how to do any copyrights, my game isn't actually completed but i have runned through all the music, pictures etc and have copyrighted it to stop people making a game like mine.

Sounds pretty good huh?

My game will make sure Final Fantasy will never be forgotten.
Remember me because my game will be in the shops in a year or 2.
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Ian T
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Posted: 1st Oct 2003 02:24
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Dosen't stop people from making a game LIKE yours. Industry games-- acclaimed and popular industry games-- come out that are complete and utter clones all the time. With no permission from the original company. They can't use your actual media or characters, but your game idea isn't really something that can be copyrighted... too vague.

Chances are it's already been used anyways .

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Newbie Brogo
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Posted: 1st Oct 2003 02:56
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the longer you wait.. the more games are taken up, and it makes it hard to make a game that doesnt interfere wit copyright...
ya, anything you make is protected with somekinda copyright if you made it such as your media, sound, models, graphics, ect......
i made a post like this awhile ago.......

You did what? For who?! For how many jellybeans?!?
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BatVink
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Firstly, you could mail copies of everything to yourself, registered delivery, and leave it sealed when it arrives. You then have a date stamped, sealed copy of your artwork.

On the subject of cloned games, there is the issue of "Prior Art". Even if you were to copyright Pac Man because you realised nobody had ever officially done it, you could never sue because of the existing examples available before you copyrighted the idea. This is the case for many games, nobody really knows who came up with the idea first, and there will always be a case of "Prior Art" if a specific example was used to lay claim to the idea.

The wheel is officially invented by an Australian guy in the year 2000! He realised that nobody had ever patented the wheel, and did it himself.
Imagine how rich he would be if it wasn't for the rule of Prior Art!!! He could sue Ford, GM, Fiat.....

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Ian T
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Posted: 1st Oct 2003 05:49
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'Firstly, you could mail copies of everything to yourself, registered delivery, and leave it sealed when it arrives. You then have a date stamped, sealed copy of your artwork.'

I've heard about this quite a bit, but I don't understand how it works... theoretically, couldn't you just slip something in (seals are easy to recreate) at a much later date?

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Newbie Brogo
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i've heard in my post abut this, that e-mailing yourself the stuff, wont hold up in court....
gotta go

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Martyn Pittuck
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not email, post office

get an evolope and send it registered, if it is not opened and a paper specialist can say it has not been pamered with then you are covered in a matter of speaking.

The post office stamps each letter with the date and a code corresponding with some random number curncher, if number + date match more credibility.

Also you need a very high quality bag, dont want it to come undone after 19 years when you fell the need to sue.

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BatVink
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Quote: "'Firstly, you could mail copies of everything to yourself, registered delivery, and leave it sealed when it arrives"


Quote: "i've heard in my post abut this, that e-mailing yourself the stuff, wont hold up in court...."


How did you plan to seal your email?

My kids are 4 and 6, they're going to be the same aren't they? They'll buy houses without a letter box and ponder why we ever needed paper waste bins.

My son was sent a book through the post last week, he was so excited by the whole thing. It took him 5 minutes to open the envelope, he had to show everyone his name on the front of it first. You don't get that with an email.

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Ian T
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'The post office stamps each letter with the date and a code corresponding with some random number curncher, if number + date match more credibility.'

Is that in the UK, US, or both?

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Martyn Pittuck
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Dunno

Lol, i was guessing about the code btw, well educated guess, 3 letters today had same mark so i dunno, but date is right

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M00NSHiNE
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I read (this actually applied to a game idea, or a design doc) that you could seal the doc in an envelope, mail it to yourself, but then give it to your bank to keep safe, then its sort of untampered with.

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SuperCort2003
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Posted: 2nd Oct 2003 01:02
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Uhh.......yeah uhh....what the heck? I don't get what's going on here? Are you saying mail my pics or what?

Being a superhero is all but boring....
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