Copyright question
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- GeorgesII
Who owns the right to an idea if you took it from a comic/book and made in real?
- GeorgesII0
thanks Yuri,
another question, even if I blatantly copy it from an anime/comics,let say I watch one and the protagonist is using a gadget so cool, I bring it to life, do I have to pay some royalties to the author?
- e-pill0
Georges.. in the movie IRON MAN [2008] from Marvel - quote:
"You really think that just because you have an idea, it belongs to you?"
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0371…
does that help?
- benfal990
that idea you have, I know what it is. I already copyrighted it. I can sell you the rights for 1,5 millions Dogcoins.
- i_monk0
As long as you don't call it what the author called it (that could be grounds for a trademark fight), don't copy the appearance, you'll be fine.
- 3point141590
If the work is either satire or parody you are pretty well protected under most laws.
- odobo0
IPO ... Definition of Copyright
Copyright is a legal term used to describe the rights that creators have over their literary and artistic works. Works covered by copyright range from books, music, paintings, sculpture and films, to computer programs, databases, advertisements, maps and technical drawings
I'd say that covers what you saw in a comic ... ???
- odobo0
... from the WIPO World Intellectual Property Organisation ...
What is Intellectual Property?
Intellectual property (IP) refers to creations of the mind, such as inventions; literary and artistic works; designs; and symbols, names and images used in commerce.
So basically you only got to think it and its yours ... of course proving you thought of it first might be tricky ... but then again the OP is gonna struggle as the comic is clearly published ...
- i_monk0
A drawing of an object is copyrighted, but the object is not, and a drawing isn't a patent either.
- Gnash0
As stated in the Copyright Act:
"In no case does copyright protection for an original work of authorship extend to any idea, procedure, process, system, method of operation, concept, principle, or discovery, regardless of the form in which it is described, explained, illustrated, or embodied in such work."
- I believe you are good, Georges. Unless a patent already exists.Gnash