PROTECT your creations!

[Fozzie Bear]

Here's the next problem with this bill:

Disney, Warner Brothers, Columbia/Sony, and other such companies can afford to copyright every single thing they do. This bill mentions "orphaned works," meaning anything conceptual you create leading up to the final piece that is not copyrighted is considered orphaned.

Therefore, anything you create conceptually can be stolen by someone else for their own use and your own creativity has just created somethign for someone else, for which you won't get paid. Basically, you're feeding them. How do I perceive this? Same as if it were legal for someone to come rob you of the money in your wallet.

Saying something like this is indicative of the Disney company upset that their films are on youtube doesn't count. What is being there isn't full programming but only samples, and nobody is making money on that.

However, as mentioned above, if this bill passes, and someone gains access to your conceptual work, they can use it for their own gain LEGALLY, making money and you lose out.

This bill is BAD BAD BAD.

 

[Teheheman]

Why don't you all just copyright everything you do? I mean, I don't care for this bill but I think that the easiest way to prevent this from happening is to copyright stuff. Although, it's a lot of money to copyright things. I gotta copyright my Cheeseman stories. Including all character names, and stuff like that. But I don't know if I'd have enough money, nor do I know how to do stuff like that. I guess I'd have to talk to a lawyer. Dangnab me not being good at school so I can do stuff like this.

Daniel

 

[Redsonga]

Why don't you all just copyright everything you do? I mean, I don't care for this bill but I think that the easiest way to prevent this from happening is to copyright stuff. Although, it's a lot of money to copyright things. I gotta copyright my Cheeseman stories. Including all character names, and stuff like that. But I don't know if I'd have enough money, nor do I know how to do stuff like that. I guess I'd have to talk to a lawyer. Dangnab me not being good at school so I can do stuff like this.

Daniel

How much is it to copyright something anyway?

 

[Colbynfriends]

Is'nt around 45 dollers?

Here is a link to the copyright offices (http://www.copyright.gov/)

 

[Ilikemuppets]

It sounds silly. But why are that screw over the little man so the next great discovery can never happen?

 

[wwfpooh]

It sounds silly. But why are that screw over the little man so the next great discovery can never happen?

It's all about the money (money money moneey) & greed (i.e. power, control, influence, etc.), plain & simple.

 

[Fozzie Bear]

Teheman, you can't copyright names, they must be trademarked. You will also find that the Trademark office will not allow an official Trademark on a name IF any part of that name can be considered general terminology. For example, you cannot get them to allow you to Trademark 'chocolate turtle' because both words, chocolat and turtle, are common terms, as well as the name of a candy. You could trademark your company name, "Teheman's Candies" and put on the box, Teheman's Candies Chocolate Turtles.

Still, if they find that Teheman and Candies are both general terms, they'll deny that, too.

The bill would require that you copyright every little sketch, design, drawn or written idea, and it would need to be under forms VA for visual arts, MP for motion pictures, SE for serials, TX for textual works...and by that time you've racked up $180 in filing fees which they could actually deny copyright on. And, that's a filing fee--I do not think it's refundable.

Presently, copyright law works that your final copyrighted piece includes all works up to that point.

Oh, and this is retroactive, so you would have to go back through all your history to copyright every single thing you ever did!

It's just bad. Too many things can slip through the cracks.

 

[CensoredAlso]

Agreed. We're becoming more and more of one-government country instead of the people's republic/"democracy" that we once were.

When were we ever that?

 

[Fozzie Bear]

When were we ever that?

1776

Wocka Wocka!

 

[CensoredAlso]

1776

Wocka Wocka!

Hehe, here today, gone tomorrow!