COPYRIGHT NOTICE

[Kentos Fey’lya / Adamis]

SO I could copyright Adamis and the Jedi's Light and Panther if I wanted? Cool! ;D

[The Madet Legacy]

Then I copyright my Covenant based Faction that I made in my mind!!

[Triune]

ACtually no you couldn't copyright Adamis or the Jedi's Light. The Panther perhaps but the reason you couldn't copyright Adamis or the Jedi's light is because Lucas holds prior copyrights on things like 'Jedi' and 'Lightsabers' so you couldn't obtain any form of binding copyright to anything that uses either term. Adamis your character sans all the aspects of Jedi could be copyright protected. This is why I spend so much time actually coming up with my own ships and such. Terms like 'Ion cannons' or 'Photon Torpedoes' can't be copyright protected because they're already public domain thanks to the sci-fi writers of the early 20s and 30s who used similar terms and their copyright has long run out. Other terms like 'Laser' can't be copyright protected at all not alone, 'Turbo Laser' however could be at least in context as Lucas uses the term. If someone came up with the 'Turbo Laser carborator' then Lucas could not claim infringement. HOWEVER if her were to have the term 'Turbo Laser' Trademarked then it could not be used in any other product regardless. Case and point when I was young there as Coke cola and Pepsi Cola Now you only see the word 'Cola' used by Coke because they had the term trademarked and 'Pepsi Cola' was determined by the courts to be an infringement. Thusly that is why you only see 'Pepsi' not Pepsi Cola.

[sophiam]

is it ok that i use Ebonclaw in Guild Wars? if not i shall delete the character.

[Jedi Master Kael Caivera]

jediadamis said:

Thats pretty low. I mean if they really want to be Ebonclaws just join here! It doesn't take a genius to figure that out.

NO... BAD idea... most of them cant RP their way out of a paper bag.

[Rayken/Hk-62]

copyright hmm i could do that though i say ta in general not turbolaser or lasers

[Jacob Codex]

lirreka said:

Lirreka the character, Ebonclaw the House, Danthiri The Race, and the Claw symbol are my intellectual property to which I hold the copyright. The Star Wars RP and ONLY this board has been given the permission by me to make use of these entities in Roleplaying threads and the like. It has not been made avaliable for public use, any unauthorized use of this material is and will be considered infringment on my copyright and treated as such. IF you want to use any of this material you must have express permission from me the creator and copyright holder.

You know you have to pay for copyright to be legal.

[T3h Blank]

lirreka said:

Well there's three ways to obtain Copyright on a fictional work (Be it race, character or organization). One) you send the work in question to the government's Office covering Copyrights, Patents and Trademarks with (I'm not sure of the current fee, the last one I got cost 60 dollars) the Fee, the forms and a copy of the work, wait 120 business days and you'll receive a certificate of Copyright that is retroactive back to the time your package was post marked. The copyright is good for your lifetime plus 25 years. Two ) You can get the piece in question published in a magazine, anthology or E-zine. Nearly all such buy first publication rights for a certain amount of time then all rights revert to the author. Three ) You can print out a copy of the work and send it to yourself registered mail. This records the date and time the package was delivered. It's referred to as the 'Poorman's copyright'. Now one thing about copyright. The moment you actually write something down and you declare it a complete work it's protected by copyright law. To get it REGISTERED you need to do one of the above three methods. All of which are legal and court supported methods of registering your copyright. Lirreka and the Ebonclaws are both the first and second. Danthiri is just the second. I want to have some more stuff together before I send in the papers for registering it. Regardless all three (plus the claw image) are all copyright protected works.

*Points to post above* If you meant that, that is

[Triune]

lloydya said:

You know you have to pay for copyright to be legal.

As Ashido quoted of my post There are the three ways to register a copyright. I do believe that is what you mean by 'legal copyright'. However do keep in mind that I DO own the copyrights through paid registration or publishing the various information directly referred to (IE Lirreka, Ebonclaw, Danthiri and the Claw symbol) and I know full well the nature of copyright laws in the USA and several other countries (Basically those nations I've been published in.)

[Kentos Fey’lya / Adamis]

lirreka said:

lloydya said:

You know you have to pay for copyright to be legal.

As Ashido quoted of my post There are the three ways to register a copyright. I do believe that is what you mean by 'legal copyright'. However do keep in mind that I DO own the copyrights through paid registration or publishing the various information directly referred to (IE Lirreka, Ebonclaw, Danthiri and the Claw symbol) and I know full well the nature of copyright laws in the USA and several other countries (Basically those nations I've been published in.)

Ever been published in NZ?

[Halan]

How the hell would she know that?

[Kentos Fey’lya / Adamis]

sevordo said:

How the hell would she know that?

I think she would know where her work was sold Mandy!

[Triune]

jediadamis said:

Ever been published in NZ?

I think so, but it was back in '99 or '00 It was most likely 'Pondering an Ancient Distant Light', that was the first poem I really got well published.

[Li©h]

sevordo said:

How the hell would she know that?

ur still going on about this topic lol

[Halan]

huh?