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Copyright . Anyone any clues how to go about it ???

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little curly alan ball

little curly alan ball

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Anyone clued up on this , it would be appreciated . I'm working on couple of bits , and I'm terrified to e-mail or copy [Poor language removed] , until I protect my " Intellectual Property " , as I was advised .

Probably tripping , but you never know .
All assistance gratefully received .

Nice one .
 
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There's a lot of bollocks talked about copyright (especially the frequently-repeated "post a copy to yourself"). Look at official sites (like the government one) but realise that if you want to enforce your copyright if someone injures your rights you are possibly going to have to stump up for legal fees.

(If it is for purely web stuff you can look at the DMCA to get hosts and search engines to remove your work - http://www.google.com/dmca.html - but the other party can also object. And if they are in Asia or Eastern Europe, their hosts probably won't care.)
 
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atrottel said:
There's a lot of bollocks talked about copyright (especially the frequently-repeated "post a copy to yourself"). Look at official sites (like the government one) but realise that if you want to enforce your copyright if someone injures your rights you are possibly going to have to stump up for legal fees.

(If it is for purely web stuff you can look at the DMCA to get hosts and search engines to remove your work - http://www.google.com/dmca.html - but the other party can also object. And if they are in Asia or Eastern Europe, their hosts probably won't care.)
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Nice one At' .

Its like a piece of work . A Play , tbh . Its the concept I need to secure , so I understand , as I cant show it to any prospective interested parties until I actually OWN it , as it were .

I could well be up me own arse here , but I did have a geezer from the BBC egging me on to write it - I gave him a synopsis .

Anyway , cheers kid .
 
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TimmyDaBEST said:
erm slighlty of topic but what weere ya trying to proctect mate?
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Someone stealing / misappropriating same , kid .

Bluemoon are not the only snides .

Basically , I need to prove the IDEA was mine , and the text follows from that . So I am told , kid .

Ano it sounds uber - ego [Poor language removed] , but it's not . Honest . Id just be devoed to lose it , is all . I'm probably tripping , btw .
 
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http://www.ipo.gov.uk/copy.htm

Added: if you haven't written anything and just have the idea, you might want to look at this section of that site:

Can ideas be protected by copyright?

No. Although the work itself may be protected, the idea behind it is not.

For some copyright works people say that it is the expression of an idea that has copyright protection rather then the underlying idea. However, the borderline between expression and idea is very difficult to define - ultimately only the courts can do this.

It is possible that some ideas that are substantially elaborated could attract copyright protection. It is important to remember that if you copy less than the whole of a copyright work thinking that you are only copying the idea behind it, you may actually be copying a substantial part of the copyright work.
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atrottel said:
There's a lot of bollocks talked about copyright (especially the frequently-repeated "post a copy to yourself"). Look at official sites (like the government one) but realise that if you want to enforce your copyright if someone injures your rights you are possibly going to have to stump up for legal fees.

(If it is for purely web stuff you can look at the DMCA to get hosts and search engines to remove your work - http://www.google.com/dmca.html - but the other party can also object. And if they are in Asia or Eastern Europe, their hosts probably won't care.)
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I was always told this sufficed as it is sealed and has a date stamped on it by the government. Would have been my advice for a cheap way tbh. Why is it not valid?
 
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For a start, can you prove that you didn't reopen it and put something else inside it? Or take an older envelope that had been used and reseal it. If it comes to proof for legal proceedings, and (presumably) that's why you are doing this in the first place, the item in question has been in the possession of one of the interested parties which would tend to make it suspect. Which means you have to be able to prove i) ownership of the original copyright, ii) that the stuff that you sent to yourself was your copyrighted work and iii) that your method of proving ownership was tamper-proof in the eyes of normal-thinking members of society. Which means anyway you are into legal stuff. (IANAL)

Plus, as they point out on some sites, the concept is pretty much useless for a second infringement even if it did work (because you have opened it).

Note: that government office does give this as a possible method but points out that it does not prove ownership, just that it might help.

Would have been my advice for a cheap way tbh.
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There is no registration process for copyright so therefore no fee - you gain copyright automatically when you publish something. Publish it with the copyright symbol and the year if you are worried about it and ensure that the information reaches an uninvolved third party would be my advice - archive.org used to spider historic versions of websites, for example, so that can be useful if you have published stuff on the internet.
 
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It should also be noted that copyright is generally dealt with under civil law and not criminal so for small claims (which is I guess what we are talking about here) there is no "penalty" - rather an order to stop infringing and for payment of any actual damages caused by the infringement (which might be the most difficult thing to prove of all). Plus possible costs.
 
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little curly alan ball said:
Anyone clued up on this , it would be appreciated . I'm working on couple of bits , and I'm terrified to e-mail or copy [Poor language removed] , until I protect my " Intellectual Property " , as I was advised .

Probably tripping , but you never know .
All assistance gratefully received .

Nice one .
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Can help you in the States, my friend. Sotnas might be able to give you some EU advice.
 
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