> No, you have no more protection if you put a notice on it. Or rather, > you have the same amount of protection if you don't. It's still > copyright, it's still treated legally the exact same. But since many > people are ignorant of the copyright laws, the notice serves as a > reminder to all those idiots that think, "It doesn't have a copyright > notice on it, so I can stomp all over it and it's creators." hmm.. I guess the document I read that off of was wrong then. :> Or maybe, what the document meant was that it's easier to prove a copyright via notice? [No, you could just change the notice I guess... can't really change the postmark on an envelope.] Oh, I dunno... :> > I don't think TSR wins much. They try to sue over very petty things. > Trying to sue over using the word "Drow" as a fictious creature with a > specific description and home-place (underground) is a BIG stretch of > the laws. Especially considering the word "Drow" relating to mythical > creatures has been around for hundreds (thousands?) of years. Can't > remember where they originated from, though. hmm.. I didn't know Drow existed prior to TSR. :> I know Elves, Dwarves, etc. did. As for Drow, assuming they historically occupy a position similar to that of TSR Drow, I'd guess they originated in either Norse or Celtic mythology. The Celts has beings called 'Sidhe' which were similar to Elves, and I think Norse [or is it Danish?] mythology actually had beings called Elves. Oh well. I don't know much about Mythology aside from Greek mythology. [And bits of Norse mythology that I picked up from the 'Thor' comic book.. however, comic being comics, a lot of it is probably wrong.] > Actually, if you go into a bank with a loaded musket and say you have a > right to all the money in the bank; I think there might be a small > penalty... :) Not that, that has anything to do with copyrights, > though. Yes, I believe that'd land you in a bit of hot water. :> > BTW, did you know that four lines, one on top of another, each less than > an inch long (half an inch?), all of them solid, is trademarked?! I > mean, you can't draw four lines atop each other without risking imposing > on some companies' trademark. That is totally ridiculous, really. Is there space between the lines, or is it a solid box? > measured about what they do. Right now, most of what we perceive to > be TSR's aces are just bluffs and not trumps at all -- but a few bad > mistakes can make you wish you never broke the suit afterall (wow, > I managed to stick with the card game metaphor :)). heh.. TSR does Bluff a lot. I mean, I can understand them trademarking terms like "Planescape" and "Dark Sun" but trying to get a stranglehold on Elf, Drow, Dwarf, etc is just pathetic of them. heh... I know they went after the Net-Book people and managed to win against some of them. [I think the early Net Books copied a lot of text from TSR manuals directly.. that may have had something to do with it.] I dunno.. I'm not too up on TSR's inane legal actions. :> heh.. oh well. Back to coding. :> [And to change this CD.. I've listened to a total of 6 times tonight. It's getting really boring.] :> Steve +-----------------------------------------------------------+ | Ensure that you have read the CircleMUD Mailing List FAQ: | | http://cspo.queensu.ca/~fletcher/Circle/list_faq.html | +-----------------------------------------------------------+
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