Copyright the words, it is used in movies and games, so you can't do it too!!!
[QUOTE=RayDark;25172664]Fuck creativity. If I made it, I should have the rights to it, no matter what. Besides, nothing you say will influence the laws around copyrights at all. So your 'points' are invalid.[/QUOTE]
Dude, all your posts here just look like 'OHOHOHO MY OPINION IS TEH BEST FUCK EVERYONE ELSES'
Get out
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:ninja:'d, goddamn it
George Lucas copyrighted "Droid"..
People don't seem to have a problem with it, now do they?
Copyright dosent work I mean who Buys 3min songs for £5
[QUOTE=mustachio;25173058]Copyright dosent work I mean who Buys 3min songs for £5[/QUOTE]
What.
Copyright laws and intellectual property laws are horribly abused nowadays. Intellectual property as a concept is incredibly dumb and should be abolished, while copyright is good in a sense.
One of the problems is when laws overlap and conflics. For example, at least in Finland, any person may make a copy of... Say, a music CD for personal use, but it is illegal to break or subvert copy protection, which has to be done to produce said copy for personal usage.
And the copy protection shouldn't have been there in the first place.
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Also, I expected OP to be a fine specimen of a GNU person.
If you put the work and development into an intellectual property, you'd want to ensure you own the rights to it.
I think copyright is fine. What I hate is the system where people pretty much have to sell their ideas to a large corporate entity for the exposure they'd truly need to make money off of them.
Copyright is needed, but it lasts for too long in the United States.
Just so you all know Tradmarks != Copyright.
Makin' sure.
Getting your ideas stolen sucks. Especially when it was the only good idea you ever had.
[QUOTE=ZeldaFN;25171403]Sure I can imagine being the creator of something and worrying about someone ripping me off, but do companies take it too far? Does the mighty iron fist of copyrights go too far? I think so.
Many modern works have their ideas/influence from folklore that predates our modern copyrights.
Take the fantasy realm for instance. Pixies, unicorns, magic (spells and that sort). Imagine if these three things and many others were copyrighted by Disney, say in an alternate reality, they came up with the idea. Copyright laws have changed at least a few times, so depending on the era, the result would be different, but imagine if no one could use examples like that because Disney owned them.
Think of all the modern works that would be lost. Could be Lord of the Rings, The Legend of Zelda, Ridley Scott's Legend, Harry Potter, some aspects of Mario, and there are probably hundreds more bad and good works that could not have been, or maybe would have but either by sucking Disney off and paying them lots of greenbacks, or by releasing as a Disney IP, giving them further ownership of ideas.
I hate copyrights, and their expiration is WAY too long. You have to wait till you're dead or elderly and suffering from dementia to even begin using something that should be public domain, or you can use it anyway and fight it out in court; you might win or you might not.[/QUOTE]
Wait, you're hating something because something might have happened many years ago when it didn't? Copyrights are there to stop people stealing your idea and profiting from it, some people use them as ways to make money (lawsuits up the ass), but generally they are a good thing.
[QUOTE=Level7;25171448]Well that's your opinion, OP. Without copyrights The Internet would fall into pirating chaos.[/QUOTE]
Sort of like how the internet is now? :mmmsmug:
Anyway, Copyrights can be good. They aren't meant (or at least were never originally intended to) protect against copying of software for personal use (piracy). To me that falls under theft, but hey, be glad you aren't facing criminal charges i guess. The way copyright laws are enforced now, especially in conjunction with the Government is terrible.
Copyrights were primarily used (and still are) to prevent other companies from using your inventions in their products without paying the original owner.
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