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Custom pcx's and Copyright's

Brian Fo

Custom pcx's and Copyright's

by Brian Fo » Tue, 17 Dec 1996 04:00:00

Is it really possible to copyright a custom car .pcx file?  I have been
seeing alot on webpages lately about how the pages are copyrighted and the
car .pcx's are copyrighted (Racing Headquarters comes to mind), but why
would anyone bother.  And how can you steal an image, say the nationally
known Target logo, paste it on a car, and say that's your design?  How
would you even go about copyrighting webpages or cars?

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Jim Sokolof

Custom pcx's and Copyright's

by Jim Sokolof » Tue, 17 Dec 1996 04:00:00


> Is it really possible to copyright a custom car .pcx file?

Of course. Copyright is automatic when creating any original work. (see
Brad Templeton's FAQ posted regularly to news.announce.newusers for
more)

As for infringing on those companies' trademarks, that's another issue
entirely; one which I can't get into...

---Jim Sokoloff, Papyrus

Eric T. Busc

Custom pcx's and Copyright's

by Eric T. Busc » Tue, 17 Dec 1996 04:00:00

"If it doesn't have a copyright notice, it's not copyrighted.

This was true in the past, but today almost all major nations follow
the Berne copyright convention. For example, in the USA, almost
everything created privately and originally after April 1, 1989 is
copyrighted and protected whether it has a notice or not."

Taken from Brad Templeton's '10 Big Myths about copyright explained'

See:  http://www.clari.net/brad/copyright.html
        http://www.clari.net/brad/copymyths.html

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