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"Copyright, Trademarks etc"

I have started a debate with my friend over wether or not you can put a "C" with a circle in front of something and say it is copyrighted. I Have researched this and to get something trademarked or copyrighted you must pay hundreds of pounds and it has to be truly original (No pictures of products already designed etc). My friend however believed you can copyright something under a certain act without paying money. I went to the website describing this act and these are what it covers -

Descriptions of work and related provisions.
3. Literary, dramatic and musical works.
3A. Databases
4. Artistic works.
5. Sound recordings and films.
5A. Sound recordings
5B. Films
6. Broadcasts.
6A. Safeguards in relation to certain satellite broadcasts
7. Cable programmes.
8. Published editions.

No my friend is trying to say that his banners for the competition qualify as "Artistic works"... I seriously doubt this, for something to be an artistic work it has to be entirely your own work however his banners are nothing more than the SR trademark with pictures of mobile phones on a coloured background. All these images etc are owned by other companys and to claim it as your own artistic work is impossible. However our fight can not be ressolved by us as we are both being b1tchy. If anyone can shed any light on who is right in this situation please reply to this post.

I've not been online since two nights ago but I have come back on tonight and am shocked at what I'm reading here. Phuzzy you started this argument not me. I told you about this in another topic ages ago then you started fighting me about it on MSN. I looked up tons of information and you still didn't believe me. You said I should ask a teacher in our school and I have and they agree with me and for some reason you are still arguing with me. The worst thing is even if this is such a big argument why are knocking me online? I have just asked these people online I haven't even mentioned your name but you come online and start all this. You could take it up with me only,school or even on the phone but no you post it in three pages online. You can block me on msn, and anything else you think of but the facts remain that even if I'm not always right I am right now, even though I'm not in all the top classes at school I'm still smarter than average and you seem to be the one striving to be right re-sorting to such immature knocks.

One final thing - the notice has been altered, so that is is perfectly worded, as if it wasn't good enough for the purposes before.

You really can be quite the irratating tw@t at times, always trying to be right. Unfortunately, your intelligence has a lot to be desired, and many of your arguments are unsunstantial and to be honest, lame.

Cubist wrote:
he's right even though I'm 99.9% sure he's
> not (Cruel irony will let him be right some how lol)

It wou;dn't be the first time you've been wrong, so don't go making me look like the bad guy. I find your arguments highly doubtful, and consumer58 has also agree with me in the banner thread.

But meh, why should I be bothered by your arguments, they've never mounted to much in the past, coming from the boy who went on for 5 pages over where to post a topic. Heh, wonder why people mention it.

BEARDS! Excellent, You know with all your SR banners? How they have pictures of copyrighted designs and trademarks etc? Well that's legal but if you tryed to copyright one of these banners wouldn't that be illegal as it is composed of say pictures of gamecubes designed by Nintendo and has the "Nintendo" Trade mark on the screen? lol

Internet copyright is highly debatable. Especially as I seem to remember a court case about taking two images and photoshopping them together (with substantial change to both images) which decided it was creation of new material and so neither of the original copyrights could be applied.

Emmm we aren't in the US and it's ok the situtauion is resolved. I asked a teacher in my school and they said that he could not copyright it as it was composed of other peoples designs and trademarks.

Actually, under US law, any material published onto the internet is immediatley copyrighted to it's owner.

Lol I know but he takes everything offensively and me saying he was wrong about being able to copyright that really annoyed him and for some reason he is adimit he's right even though I'm 99.9% sure he's not (Cruel irony will let him be right some how lol)

*Is very confused*
I know nothing more.
My knowledge is limited to that fact only.

Sorry.
But does it really matter? If he gets sued for a large amount of money and loses, then it may be an issue.
Until then, it's not really.