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KimoSabi
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Posted: 13th Mar 2005 11:25
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if im starting a "company" going to be for screensavers and small fun arcade games can i just put my company in the copyright box and than it can legally not be copied?

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Guyon
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Posted: 13th Mar 2005 11:40
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Get a lawyer, if it is important
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G Man
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Posted: 13th Mar 2005 15:56
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In the United States, as soon as you write a word it is covered by a Copyright.

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IanG
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Posted: 13th Mar 2005 16:38 Edited at: 13th Mar 2005 16:39
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in the uk you can not call yourself a company unless you are a company, which is done by sending many forms, but in the uk any thing you make that has the copyright symbol, year, your name followed by "All Rights Reserved" is copyrighted. Actually anything you make is copyrighted - you just put all that stuff to tell people.

The TGC copyright is at the bottom of every page and looks like


and if your name was Joe Blogs then you would put


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Rob K
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Posted: 13th Mar 2005 18:41
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Just to re-iterate IanG's comments, anything you write in the UK is covered by copyright. You don't need to put "(C) Your Name - Year" or anything like that on the work.

Again, just to re-iterate, you cannot call yourself a company in the UK unless you are registered with Companies House.


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newbi 2 basic
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and I think you have to have more than 2 people working in the company if its just one person then I think it can only be called a business

I might be wrong though but I think it was something I read

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flibX0r
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Although if you can undoubtably prove that you made something, then you own it (ie, Interlectual Property). Putting All rights reserved and copyright and so on, just acts as proof


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KimoSabi
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so could somebody post an example (with all of the things filed out) on the darkbasic thing
eg.:
Company Name:"Company Name"
File Description:"Description"
File Version:"Version"
and than what i would put in other fields to make it so no1 can copy it

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