General Questions about Licensing
Sigmascape1 at cs.com
Sigmascape1 at cs.com
Wed Apr 21 14:45:31 EDT 2004
Hello!
I am new to the list. This is my first post.
Over the years, I've found intellectual property issues interesting, especially in the entertainment world. As a comic book fan, its really interesting to read about issue relating to 'who owns what characters.' I realize that CC is primarily concerned with copyright issues, and the various ways to free or partially free content by using various licenses. What about trademarks? For example, is there any way to create, using my comic book interest, a character, establish a formal or informal trademark on the character, and then create comic book content that would be then licensed under some sort of CC license, and use CC or a CC-like license the entire way?
>From what I have read while researching IP, a trademark must be 'defended' so that it is preserved. Wouldn't the same be true of a standard copyright? If I wrote a poem, and wanted to reserve all rights to it using the current copyright law, wouldn't I have to defend it against rampant copying or protect it against someone else claiming ownership?
Hopefully, I am making sense. I'm just curious how far CC and CC-like concepts can be pushed when it comes to complete, end-to-end concepts relating to some IP.
Thanks!!!
MLF
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