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Ok, I need this answered
Topic Started: Dec 4 2009, 11:42 PM (217 Views)
warriorjames Dec 4 2009, 11:42 PM Post #1
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Do you think I should copyright my stories...like ATL and all?

The reason is that, I was talking with my did about the story I'm writing (brand new. About 20k in length right now. Nowhere close to completion), and my dad brought up that he didn't want people snooping around public sites like this one and end up stealing my ideas for their own...with them winding up making 100 grand off of an idea that I came up with.

I mean, there are people out there who do that kind of stuff.
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Chaos Shadow Dec 5 2009, 12:48 AM Post #2
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You can't copyright fanfiction.

Like I told Vega, you can technically do a poor man's copyright by mailing the documents to yourself so you can prove that somebody did steal your basic idea, if indeed it comes to that.
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Martillo Dec 5 2009, 06:35 AM Post #3
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Yeah also, posting something onto the internet counts as publishing (which is why I have a site for my story), so you automatically gain a copyright upon posting it here (In fact, so are your contributions to RPs, as they are a collective work!) I think that's generally the convention in EU and US, though you can add the © thing at the end of stuff just to reinforce it. Of course registration of copyright is a different matter, poor man's copyright doesnt work all that well in a court of law in the US but registration supposedly does (in the UK we don't need to register.)

Here's an excerpt from the US Copyright Offices Publication

Copyright Secured Automatically upon Creation
The way in which copyright protection is secured is frequently
misunderstood. No publication or registration or other action
in the Copyright Office is required to secure copyright. (See
following note.) There are, however, certain definite advantages
to registration. See “Copyright Registration” on page 7.
Copyright is secured automatically when the work is created,
and a work is “created” when it is fixed in a copy or
phonorecord for the first time. “Copies” are material objects
from which a work can be read or visually perceived either
directly or with the aid of a machine or device, such as books,
manuscripts, sheet music, film, videotape, or microfilm.
“Phonorecords” are material objects embodying fixations of
sounds (excluding, by statutory definition, motion picture
soundtracks), such as cassette tapes, CDs, or vinyl disks.
Thus, for example, a song (the “work”) can be fixed in sheet
music (“copies”) or in phonograph disks (“phonorecords”),
or both. If a work is prepared over a period of time, the part
of the work that is fixed on a particular date constitutes the
created work as of that date.
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warriorjames Dec 5 2009, 02:35 PM Post #4
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So the work I place on here is protected by copyright?
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Nova Dec 5 2009, 02:52 PM Post #5
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Chaos kinda has a point. Digimon doesn't belong to any of us, it's an idea based off something already in existance. We just have expanded upon it and made it...

Basically Epic.

But if it was something completely new then yeah. Best to get it copyrighted just to be safe.
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Martillo Dec 5 2009, 07:41 PM Post #6
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So the work I place on here is protected by copyright?

Pretty much, the ideas are, not the actual digimon stuff though. It'd be pretty hard to defend in the court of law as it's technically fanfic and various IP (intellectual properties) are concerned, ie Bandai etc. But a blatant rip-off would be prosecutable and yes, it's automatic. Not sure you can actually register fanfic anyway.
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Chaos Shadow Dec 5 2009, 11:21 PM Post #7
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Again, you cannot register fanfic for copyright protection due to the fact that it's using another person's work. DCD is actually quite a lot of unique ideas unto itself, and works made under its umbrella also have their own unique ideas, but the works themselves are fanfiction; illegal, in fact, if they were being used to turn a profit.

To be perfectly frank (just like I told Vega, as well), I seriously do not think you, or any of us, have a lot to worry about on this front.
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NathanS Dec 5 2009, 11:47 PM Post #8
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And to be on the blunt side, ideas are a dime a dozen. I remember reading an interview or something by Neil Gaiman were he commented about the massive number of people who come up to him asking to make a novel from an idea they had as if by coming up with an idea they had done the hard part.
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Grim Wolf Dec 6 2009, 01:00 AM Post #9
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"There is nothing new under the sun."

On that note, if you wanted to move original ideas, there wouldn't be a copyright infringement if you were using plotlines. I fully intend to use Simon and Raidon for something of substance one day, but it won't be a violation unless my 'Data Beast, Caster di Ignatius helps me save the 'Cyberverse' from destruction at some point.

None of the concepts you have created on DCD have been the intellectual property of Bandai: only the tools you used to express them. Change the tools--and I mean seriously change the tools, you can't alter one letter or something and stick to the basic forms--and your ideas are entirely your own.

Chaos is right, we really don't have anything to worry about on this front, at the very least for a long time. And what case is going to be put against you, if by some chance Zomba and the foxtaur Ancient to meet in some other medium of entertainment? That you appeared on DCD once? Chaos featured a disclaimer on the main page, we're fine.
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Adrian.Creed Dec 6 2009, 01:56 AM Post #10
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"there is nothing new under the sun" can't entirely be applied to DCD, because thanks to Chaos we've all transformed our storylines into these unique little packages that could possibly be published.

Then when we apply our writing to real life assignments (papers and such), I'd like to think that all of us silently say "You only want five pages? Five pages is paltry!" to our professors, while the rest of the classroom sits and gawks with horrorstricken faces while we work out three solid pages at mind-numbing speeds.
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So, not only is all of our work original, but we've also worked to create --honestly-- the best RPG I have ever come across. People on forums don't tend to believe me when I mention DCD, then they google it and exclaim "Holy crap, this is what Digimon should have been!".
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