Post #243132 by lanikai on Sat, Jul 15, 2006 5:45 PM

On 2006-07-15 16:52, pablus wrote:
His gem of advice to me is... "If you're not making any money off of it, no one cares. If you start making money - then it's going to get looked into."

how much per word?!
classic scene. yer being reamed by the legal ream machine.

that is one lawyer's take on it. others have said different. and of course, it entirely depends on the copyright holder. And how they may feel about their work being disseminated, either in print or electronically to the potential thousands or even millions, via the internet...
One lawyer is, of course, in absolutely no position to assume, think, or have intimate knowledge what any and every book author or web site artist/owner in the world, thinks in their own mind. And what that copyright holder then decides to do to protect their work.

and someone "saying" they don't mind their thing being used in another's work, is heard often. And everytime it reminds me of a certain restaurant chain owned by a certain couple of ladies i used to sell decor to. They asked a certain birdbrain if they could use his song title for their restaurant chain. And he said sure, go ahead. I don't mind. and then of course years later, his lawyers went after the aforementioned wimmen and sued to get his song title back so HE... could capitolize on his phrase he gave to them for their use.
I ain't sayin anyone here would act like this. Just employ the age old lesson: Cover Yo Ass.

[ Edited by: lanikai 2006-07-15 17:59 ]