On Wed, 16 Oct 1996, Ebon Mists wrote: > As far as just putting copyright blah blah on something goes... Ok. You > 'copyright' your zone. > > I steal a copy, go into a text editor, change it a little bit, and change > the copyright to ME. I now use it in my mud. BUZZ! Notta, theres a little thing called plagiarism, and go and ask any english teacher, and plagiarism is not fixed by changing a small portion of the work, if you use that work, as a base, or unmodified, it is still copyright that person. > > Legal actions ensue. You sue be for stealing your area. > > Who's to say you didnt steal mine? It would be your word against mine. Sure, > you could have your players say that areas been in your mud for 2 years, but > I could just as easily say I wrote mine 3 years ago, and the mud has been in > beta without any 'witnesses' IE: players. > > It comes down to a you say vs. I say issue. Unless you had some extremely > convincing evidence in your favor, the case would not go anywhere. I'm not > positive on that 4 year copyright thing that someone posted, but even if > that were true... during that 4 year perios without a legal copyright > documented somewhere in some government office, it's a matter of my word > versues yours, in which case, the actual copyright becomes pointless. > > Hades > > This email Copyright 1996 by Ebon Mists Productions. Reproduction or use, in > part or whole, without express written permission of the author will bring > about severe legal action. > > You mean to tell me that by me typing that, if anyone quotes parts of this > message back to the list without my permission, I have the right to sue, and > WOULD win? I think any court in the United States would laugh that case > right out the door. > +-----------------------------------------------------------+ > | Ensure that you have read the CircleMUD Mailing List FAQ: | > | http://cspo.queensu.ca/~fletcher/Circle/list_faq.html | > +-----------------------------------------------------------+ > +-----------------------------------------------------------+ | Ensure that you have read the CircleMUD Mailing List FAQ: | | http://cspo.queensu.ca/~fletcher/Circle/list_faq.html | +-----------------------------------------------------------+
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