Pastor Rick
The Reeve
Registered: 07-2005
Location: Texas
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copyright?
I do like to protect my work but I am generous to a fault when it comes to sharing and donating graphics and code to Runboard. My latest skin project is called The Medieval Way and in it I used a heraldic badge that is actually registered to me. It is not public domain and I do not wish to give it to Runboard though I do want Runboard to have permission to use it as long as it is used with the skin I am designing.
To that end I posted a "graphic note" with the express purpose of protecting my "copyright registration" over here.
My question is... have I succeeded in protecting my copyright appropriately with the post or do I need to do more in this instance?
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12/26/2011, 3:21 pm
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Firlefanz
Lady of the Land
Registered: 05-2003
Location: Germany
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Re: copyright?
There are several levels of copyright you can invoke. I think your explanation is very clear, and should protect your copyright. The right will always lie with you (until 70 years after your death, at least in the US), but you can grant uses, just as you did.
However, I really am not a lawyer knowing all the ins and outs of copyright.
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12/26/2011, 6:15 pm
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QS2
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Registered: 03-2006
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Re: copyright?
While not a lawyer here either, in the software world copyright is so far as I know always retained, unless you explicitly say that you are placing it in the public domain. Or in some other way say fairly clearly that you are forgoing copyright on it.
For example, with in the software world there is a license where you for go all copyright protections, except that you must maintain a few names or some such of people who contributed to the work. Despite being so free about it, they do still have copyright though, which is in fact how they can enforce that one little rule.
If you want to be really really certain, you should ask a lawyer I suppose. But I hope this atleast helps set you at ease that losing copyright tends to require being some what explicit about it.
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12/27/2011, 9:32 am
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