Oh, [I]now[/I] they noticed. And why would you trademark a meme anyway?
"Wow, I sure love the internet. It's a place where people from all over the world can freely create, share and make new twists on conte- HEY WHAT THE FUCK WARNER BROS WHERE'S MY MONEY?"
That's just pathetic.
[QUOTE=Funny Hats;40506524]"Wow, I sure love the internet. It's a place where people from all over the world can freely create, share and make new twists on conte- HEY WHAT THE FUCK WARNER BROS WHERE'S MY MONEY?"[/QUOTE]
Just because something is made on the Internet, doesn't make it immune to copyright and trademark laws. It's just that most of the time nobody enforces them.
See the other thread [url=http://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1267738]here[/url].
[QUOTE=KillerJaguar;40506638]Just because something is made on the Internet, doesn't make it immune to copyright and trademark laws. It's just that most of the time nobody enforces them.
See the other thread [url=http://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1267738]here[/url].[/QUOTE]
I'm just saying it's pretty scummy to copyright a meme. For example, look at the guy who supposedly made coolface/trollface, he threatens to sue people all the damn time just to get a cut of their trollface merchandise pie.
The point is they don't care about the integrity of their copyrighted material or anything, they just want money. They only copyrighted their shit once the realized the tremendous cash potential they could get from suing people who have lots of money themselves.
Well I could understand that they don't like third parties making money with the success of their videos, no matter how silly they are.
I [i]could,[/i] but
I didn't even know Scribblenauts included memes or used them as a selling point. Memes by their nature can only flourish if they're shared, edited, remixed. There's plenty of sites collecting meme content among funny pictures to generate ad revenue - without legal consequences.
So I don't see how they're gonna be successful in court with this. Seems like a dickmove to be honest.
[QUOTE=Funny Hats;40506719]I'm just saying it's pretty scummy to copyright a meme. For example, look at the guy who supposedly made coolface/trollface, he threatens to sue people all the damn time just to get a cut of their trollface merchandise pie.
The point is they don't care about the integrity of their copyrighted material or anything, they just want money. They only copyrighted their shit once the realized the tremendous cash potential they could get from suing people who have lots of money themselves.[/QUOTE]
As long as he's the one who created it, he's free to do whatever he wants with it. Which includes suing a developer for including it without his permission.
I seriously hope this case gets thrown out or fails.
Suing over pretty things like these is just pathetic.
they're also taking into account the fact that the trademarks were made five years after the videos were put on the internet.
"What is intellectual property?" - everyone
That's pathetic. These people have not given a shit about "their" memes being depicted in thousands and thousands of variations on the internet with absolutely no credit for them whatsoever (I'd be absolutely incapable of telling who the hell made the keyboard cat or nyancat video in the first place) because they know they'd just be losing any attempt at making money on this, but a video game ? Yeah sure, that's easy dollars.
[editline]3rd May 2013[/editline]
[QUOTE=KillerJaguar;40506874]As long as he's the one who created it, he's free to do whatever he wants with it. Which includes suing a developer for including it without his permission.[/QUOTE]
Doesn't mean it's not the most pathetic thing you could do with your meme.
well on the other side of the coin, the people who made the video didnt mean for it to become a "meme", and im sure wanted to protect their rights to their own videos and not have their cat on their keyboard on shirts made by other people who would then basically be getting money for something they didnt create.
in this case, instead of a shirt, its in a video game.
[QUOTE=Captain Chalky;40510355]You want to know what's more pathetic? Putting memes in video games.[/QUOTE]
If it's the only thing you have going for (I'm looking at you fez) I'd agree but Scribblenauts has some very good stuff in it, and as far as I remember, not that many memes in it.
[QUOTE=KillerJaguar;40506874]As long as he's the one who created it, he's free to do whatever he wants with it. Which includes suing a developer for including it without his permission.[/QUOTE]
I know they're totally fine legally, it just seems like a petty thing to do is all. Especially in the trollface guy's case, he's openly a greedy asshole and he knows it.
[QUOTE=ShackNewsFeed;40505841][url]http://www.shacknews.com/article/79029/scribblenauts-dev-publisher-face-suit-over-use-of-nyan-cat[/url][/QUOTE]
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[QUOTE=Funny Hats;40506719]I'm just saying it's pretty scummy to copyright a meme. For example, look at the guy who supposedly made coolface/trollface, he threatens to sue people all the damn time just to get a cut of their trollface merchandise pie.
The point is they don't care about the integrity of their copyrighted material or anything, they just want money. [b]They only copyrighted their shit once the realized the tremendous cash potential they could get from suing people who have lots of money themselves.[/b][/QUOTE]
Copyright is not something you have to apply for, as soon as you make an original work of any kind you have copyright of that by default.
You might be thinking of a trademark, but that works differently from copyright.
3 years late dude
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