>Okay, what I MEANT was this: You could take a building or a set of
>stands and alter the textures. Say the building going into 1 at
>Bristol...without textures, it is a box. No one can copyright a box.
Strictly speaking, no one can copyright the idea of a box; however, if
my expression of the box idea is somehow unique and I can claim that
that uniqueness is in any way important, I can copyright the
particular expression of a box. (No one can copyright the idea of a
novel, but I can copyright my particular expression of a novel. Same
for songs, plays, paintings, computer games, etc.)
If the framework is unique somehow, I'll bet it's copyrightable.
That remains to be seen; I disagree with your argument so far.
(See above; that holds for SHAPE to as far as I can tell.)
This is a dangerous assumption to make, and I would encourage anyone
who has any money to their name who is considering this to check with
a competent intellectual property lawyer before assuming that Mike is
correct here. (Because I honestly believe he's not.)
You haven't dealt with the sponsors. Papyrus has run into problems in
their past with sponsors. The sponsors could choose to view it as free
advertising, but most don't. Even if they viewed it as free
advertising, they would probably compel you to sign a license with
them.
---Jim Sokoloff
PS: I'm not trying to be the rain on peoples' parade, but the legal
opinions that get presented here, while tempting are generally simply
not true.
