a legal question...

[*NADS Capt. Anarchy]

i'm just curious... what exactly would i have to do to get someone in deep shit if they copied my personal work and used it for their own personal gain? Anyone know any sites i could goto for info about this ir have some info?

[Jeb]

Well i could ask my dad about it if you want,
he is a partner in a lawfirm up here in seattle.

As far as i know its the same thing as plagerism, but i don't know the legal grounds or the punishment.

If this is about that pop up window you think i stold from you site... i got it from a diff site
jeb

[*NADS Capt. Anarchy]

teehee jeb... no, it wasn't you. it was everyone's favorite asshole and his special site he made by ripping my graphics, html source, and all straight off my page, modifying them slightly, and reposting them. Didn't someone else get banned from the BL for stealing a pages source?

[Ace]

Capt., if your stuff was copyrighted, I believe all you would need to do is send a nice little letter to his ISP saying that he refuses to take it down. Other than that, there is no real reason to go further because it would become too much hassle about something so asinine.

[Bondo]

You don't specifically need a copyright to have the intellectual rights...you just need proof that it was yours originally.

But unless the person who steals it gains something from it by claiming it as their own, then there isn't really legal grounds.

As for Romulus blatantly ripping off the DAMN site, he wasn't banned from the BL for that (he was banned for being a lousy cheater), he was just thought of as a moron for taking the DAMN site code.

[|MP|Buccaneer]

BTW, first and foremost, just adding the little ? or any other symbol doesn't make a thing copyrighted.  Copyrights do have to be registered (just like trademarks, servicemarks, etc).  

Also, Bondo's right.  Unless they do it for profit or gain, there's nothing you can do about it.  Plagerism is not against the law, it's just low class.

[Jeb]

yeah capt,
the painfull irony over this,
is that rapid claimed i copyed him with a side scrolling gif.
I dunno mb its just proves that he yearns for our atention

[Bondo]

Also, Bondo's right.

I think I'll have to remember this quote...I don't hear it much from you...or anyone really.

[PsYcO aSsAsSiN]

Well, the only thing I think Rapid could be held on is slander because it is intentionally attempting to smear *NADS name in shit. But I don't think you want to go through the trouble of filing a civil lawsuit against him...

[tasty]

bucc? ?opyrights are not like ?trademarks, if you put the symbol on any work created by you it counts as formal proof that it was created by you and will hold up in court? to use something that is copywrited in this manor is still intellectually dishonest and is considered plagiarism.

[cookie2]

ok. this makes me laugh. I can imagine it now, "*NADS Captain Anarchy vs. AK Rapid". I'd totally go picket outside with a "free capt" sign, or I'd attempt to represent you dressed in a yellow snakeskin pantsuit. Woot.

[Bondo]

Well, for something to be considered slander there needs to be some sort of loss on the party that was slandered, be it financial, emotional, or social.  In this case no one likes Rapid and only thinks less of Rapid for this, not the members of NADS...it would be hard to believe that any damage was done to NADS and thus it wouldn't be slander.

As for being able to just copyright something and have it hold up in court...I could just as well take that same thing and slap my own copyright of it and have just as much of a claim...it goes back to what I said about having proof that it is indeed your intelectual property because you first wrote something or designed something.

[Brain]

Also, Bondo's right.

I think I'll have to remember this quote...I don't hear it much from you...or anyone really.

hey, what do you know, bondo is right 2 times in one day,hehe. anyways, on to my main point. couldnt you charge him on defamation, or does that go along with slander?

[*NADS Capt. Anarchy]

...In this case no one likes Rapid and only thinks less of Rapid for this, not the members of NADS...

so.. in that case... rapid could sue himself for slander and deflemation of charachter, eh?

and brain, yea, the deflemation of charachter would go along with that. anyways... the site was soo poorly done it really did slander his "webskillz" and not *NADS. Anyways, everyone knows what *NADS really stands for...


..don't you?

[Brain]

hehe, i do, but i'm not telling