Another point: A copyright means you can't copy the work. You are allowed to come up with the same idea yourself and arrive at a simiar result. It requires a patent to protect against that.
Furthermore, DMCA applies only when the original work is *digitally* copied. It does *NOT* apply to a forger painting a duplicate of someone else's work. That falls under normal copyright law. If you didn't bypass copyright protection mechanisms to duplicate the original, it's not a DMCA violation. LL may use received DMCA filings for purposes other than the intent of DMCA, though -- that's their issue. On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 11:46 AM, Lear Cale <lear.c...@gmail.com> wrote: > FYI, Whoever wrote this is ignorant of US copyright and trademark law. > In the US (and most countries), you have an implicit copyright > whenver you render an original work in any fixed medium. I.e., if you > sing a song you made up, no implicit copyright, but if you record it > or write it down, you do get one. "Work" here means "work of an > author". > > A copyright does not have to be registered to be valid. It does have > to be registered to file suit; failure to register before publication > means you can still collect damages but not "statutory damages and > attorneys' fees". > > If subsequent posts are correct for what this is about, copyrights > don't apply anyway. > > Also, you can't copyright a name. You use trademarks to protect a name. > > So just be warned that there's a lot of bullshit going on here, on > both sides of the fence. > > IANAL but I do know a little about copyright law. You can verify > these facts at http://www.copyright.gov . > > Jeff > > On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 4:28 AM, Lance Corrimal > <lance.corri...@eregion.de> wrote: >> Hey all, >> >> just got this notecard inworld: >> >> "Hello. >> >> You are reading this because you were listed in a lawsuit by Belial Foulsbane >> and Scarlett Vielle. >> Somehow you are a victim of his False DMCA claims, and his ongoing effort to >> manipulate LL into killing off his competition for the "Emerald Speed Rez". >> >> If you would like to join the defendants against this paperwork-greifer in a >> counter lawsuit please contact me with your SL name and anything else at >> prime...@gmail.com >> >> Do not be scared >> 1) Scarlett Vielle claimed that they automaticly had a protected copyright >> from the moment they made anything. >> (The US copyright office is not aware of every creation in SL, does not issue >> free copyrights, and does not issue anything without a proper filing) >> >> 2) There is no copyright registered in the united states: >> http://cocatalog.loc.gov/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&PAGE=First >> >> 3) Linden Labs cannot be sued. Yet he filed against them. >> >> 4) The judges signature on his legal papers he faxed to LL is blank. >> >> 5) He cannot copyright the word "Emerald" for the same reason he cannot >> copyright the word "SecondLife" or "Microsoft". >> >> He is a paperwork bully filing false DMCA claims as you know. >> >> If you have any ideas to stop this madman, do please share them. >> Lets create a group and fight him off shall we? >> >> zFire" >> >> >> ... is that guy out of his mind? >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: >> http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/OpenSource-Dev >> Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting >> privileges >> > _______________________________________________ Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/OpenSource-Dev Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting privileges
