Paysite Discussion Thread
sabrasivonsky:
babyblue,
What many people do when they create artwork is to have something showing the date of creation on it, so that they've documented the originality of the creation. Yes, you can apply for a copyright to make it official, but my point was that you don't legally have to.
From a government website on US copyright law:
Copyright Registration
In general, copyright registration is a legal formality intended to make a public record of the basic facts of a particular copyright. However, registration is not a condition of copyright protection. Even though registration is not a requirement for protection, the copyright law provides several inducements or advantages to encourage copyright owners to make registration.
http://www.copyright.gov/register/
babyblue1387:
Hmm. That seems really weird to me.
Marhis:
For what I know, in Italy too works in this way. Copyright is granted by the act of creation itself. Copyright registration is a further official document, which puts a timestamp on the item, so in case of litigation you have a solid proof about the date of your creation.
If I register a copyright on someone else's creation, but he can prove in another way the author is not me but him, my registration is revoked for sure.
PegasusDiana:
Quote from: babyblue1387;760948
Hmm. That seems really weird to me.
Your correct this has been tried in courts here in the US without actual copyright protection I don't care what they tell you, no court in this land is going to award you a thing. This is why if you do a search on copyright cases you'll find 99.9 percent of them have been settled out of court with each side paying their own attorney costs and a cease order. Somewhere, someone has either drawn, painted, or made something very similar and they own the Patent. Which means at best you get limited copyright protection.
EA is smart enough to know they have limited copyright protection which is why "you" have to agree to a contract. Writing is different although many have lost on that issue as well. Artwork is set up to protect budding artists, moreso than the actual artist. But here we come full circle back to copyright and copyright has nothing 0 nada to do with contract laws.
Contract laws could care less what "you" think you own. Who made it. Who thinks they own copyright. Besides we give up any right to copyright on our own creations the minute we click on agree, we agreed to the terms of their contract. Here's the major difference, you violate copyright there are almost always set fines, cease orders. No biggy. You violate contract laws, the company sets the amount they feel are the losses. Some of these people really should use their brains. When you play with fire, you usually get burned. Maybe EA will never do nothing about paysites, and maybe they'll decide the lining in their pockets could also use some fattening. It's all about the almighty dollar and if they feel these people are getting to big a piece of the pie.
babyblue1387:
Thanks Pegasus. That makes things a little clearer for me. Maybe I just had it in my mind that you had to file some kind of paperwork for the copyright. As one of my professors said: "A copyright is only worth as much money as you are willing to spend to protect it." And in this case (maybe with the exception of TSR and Peggy combined) I hardly think paysites can hardly even BEGIN to go up against EA.
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