| November 17th, 2006 07:12 PM |
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| Clumsy |
Are we allowed to add a copyright notice at the bottom of our board?
(example; Copyrighted (2006) Clumsy/So and So board name)
Or something like that? Or do we have to put Excoboard copyright? |
| November 17th, 2006 07:20 PM |
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| SivoxII |
It's a good question, as we have:
Design based on Cobalt 2.0 theme by Jakob Persson
Copyright © 2003-2005 Jakob Persson
... at the bottom of our forum, where I intended to ask someday if that could be legally removed. I know in the script, there were text notes saying not to remove, but wasn't sure if that applied to the actual copyright text on the footer? |
| November 17th, 2006 07:57 PM |
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| zombie8 |
There's a script for making each members posts copyrighted to them so maybe its possible to get what you are asking for too. |
| November 17th, 2006 08:27 PM |
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| Clumsy |
Ahhh, okay... |
| November 18th, 2006 12:15 AM |
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| BluAngelGrrl |
If you are using the theme exactly as it was made, I would say the copyright notice at the bottom of the board SHOULD stay. If you have completly revamped the board, but used the colbalt theme as a guide, I guess it gets iffy. IF there is a place that you can change the text to reflect that the Original Colbalt theme was © to the person, but changes made reflect your own interperation and design. It gets really iffy when removing copyrights. I personally would leave the copyright notice even if I changed the them entirely. |
| November 18th, 2006 12:20 AM |
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| fin24000 |
Well on a forum im on this came up and I was told that unless it says all rights reserved then its fair game.,... |
| November 18th, 2006 02:35 AM |
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| SivoxII |
Quote:
BluAngelGrrl wrote:
If you are using the theme exactly as it was made, I would say the copyright notice at the bottom of the board SHOULD stay. If you have completly revamped the board, but used the colbalt theme as a guide, I guess it gets iffy. IF there is a place that you can change the text to reflect that the Original Colbalt theme was © to the person, but changes made reflect your own interperation and design. It gets really iffy when removing copyrights. I personally would leave the copyright notice even if I changed the them entirely.
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Very good point Blu! ... as I feel that our predicament falls clearly under the "iffy" category. |
| November 18th, 2006 07:24 AM |
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| NurseDude |
I'm not an attorney, but this is my thought on this issue.
A copyright protects printed material. If the script is copyrighted, the only place the © should appear would be within the script itself inside double // marks to keep it from actually showing on the board.
If the visual appearance of the board is to be protected, it should be trademarked in the same way a Coke can is trademarked or a McDonald's logo is trademarked. |
| November 18th, 2006 11:45 AM |
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| Clumsy |
I'm not talking about the themes/skins because I believe the © should stay.
I was asking if we could Copyright our stuff, the stuff we make up and add to our board? Are we allowed to add a copyright notice to that? |
| November 18th, 2006 01:57 PM |
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| sdn |
You are as long as you don't take credit for anything that's not yours (ExCo's code, names, and such). |
| November 18th, 2006 02:20 PM |
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| Clumsy |
The answer I was needing, thank you! |
| November 18th, 2006 03:10 PM |
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| portyporty |
We have a copyright notice on our board, does this mean anyone copying and pasting whats on the board is doing wrong. |
| November 18th, 2006 09:15 PM |
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| sdn |
Not necessarily. It's okay if it falls under fair use. (The EFF might have more info. http://eff.org ) |