Thread: Know Your Rights: Copyright Laws
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March 15th, 2008, 02:16 #21
I would like to point out this thread had nothing to do with this user's banning. The copyright discussion was mostly civil. Threats and other actions from the user lead to the banning from my understanding of the situation.
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March 15th, 2008, 03:23 #22Originally Posted by robocoastie
I don't think attacking anyone with generalities is going to help here, so unless you've got a specific, referenceable issue with what has been written, I'm not sure what value your addition to this thread has.
To contribute to the linkage here though, I dug through my board game designing links and found this site which has some good information that it's culled targeted towards board games and rpgs presumably without bias which I would tend to agree with, and that site itself has a number of other links for various sources including the US patent and trademark office.
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March 15th, 2008, 07:15 #23
Unfortunately, this thread looks to have degenerated to name calling. (Calling someone a pompous you-know-what is not exactly my form of civil discussion.) What started out with a discussion on the finer points the OP laid out, the subsequent seeming withdrawal of the OP from this community has now gone way of the mean, I fear.
We could go on for days about what is "legal" what is not, "fair use", "derivative works", etc. The point is moot though because in the end it really is up to the copyright holder to enforce their rights, or they stand the chance of losing them.
While it may come off as unfair to a lot of people, and there may be moral objections to the concept of copyright, it is what it is, and so far, nothing has changed in that respect.
I would like to see the firestorm die with this thread. I am not afraid to speak about copyright, or debate about it. I will give try you an informed opinion, and I will always back up what I am saying with references. I will not resort to name calling, as I believe that goes against the spirit of this community.
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March 15th, 2008, 07:32 #24Originally Posted by joshuha
Anyway, let's put all this behind now. If somebody feels that the copyright issues must be discussed further at this point, please start a new thread.
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