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Kraken
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Ok, let's pretend an artist steals your design and charges $200 for the tribal tattoo...
By the time you file suit and take depositions, gather evidence, pay filing fees and other expenses, etc., your costs will be way more than you stand to win...
You'll spend more than $200 proving your copyright was violated on the tattoo ---
No lawyer will take your case on a percentage basis, they'll all want up front money to cover their time and expenses --- it's not like you've written a top 10 pop song that will make millions of dollars and still be featured on elevators in 2021...
Even if the design is copied 100 times all across the country, I don't realistically see how it is financially worth it to "protect" your copyright --- are you going to license your tatt and only allow certain artists to do it, paying you a set fee for each one they do?
Better to guzzle some Sailor Jerry Rum and cuss them all as thieving bitches --- now that's a remedy you can live with... |
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| Posted: Sun May 27, 2007 3:18 am Post subject: |
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Kraken - you raise some excellent points. 
When I worked in the copyright department of publishing company, the least expensive legal course was usually to seek injunctive relief against an infringer. Another course of action would be filing a criminal complaint under section 506 of the 1976 Copyright Act: See: http://www.law.cornell.edu/copyright/copyright.act.chapt5.html#17usc50
It seems that multinational companies are in the best position to protect their copyrights. |
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| Posted: Sun May 27, 2007 4:28 am Post subject: |
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| I have also read that the "poor man's copyright" does not work. I believe I read it on a government site about copyrighting... |
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| Posted: Sun May 27, 2007 6:35 am Post subject: |
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Better to guzzle some Sailor Jerry Rum and cuss them all as thieving bitches --- now that's a remedy you can live with... |
Lol, ok sounds good to me *winks*
well I thank you all for the information, I don't know why people were telling me to get it copyrighted *shrugs* but a watermark it is. and some rum *nodnod* |
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| Posted: Sun May 27, 2007 9:30 am Post subject: |
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I'll just mention that it's very difficult to copyright something like a "tribal design" that could so easily be manipulated enough to offically be "different" from the original.
In other words.... you'll find that custom wheel companies are constantly getting their designs ripped off. The obvious question is.... why not copyright the designs? The reason they dont is because it is so easy for the knockoff companies to create slight differences in their design that nobody would typically notice, but they meet the legal requirement of "percentage of difference" to get away with it. I forget what exactly it is but it's like, some amount of points that have to differ from the original, I'm sure i could find out. |
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