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Oh I almost forgot. How come EVERYONE (I know a few lawers) I ask tells me about how bad breaking copyright is and all of the legal bull**** related, and NO ONE tells me how I can obtain copyright over an ideea of my own (unrelated to Zelda or anything else).
This is the reason I chose to make a fan game: If I make an original game, SOME JERK WILL most definatley come and steal my stuff cause it ain't copyrighted, AND what's worse, MAKE $$$ with MY IDEEA!!!!! It's happened to me once, and I won't do it again. If I am to work on an original game again I want to rest assured that my stuff is safe! If I want to (usually I do) I WILL release it opensource. Whereas making a fangame is neutral to me, the worst woul be a cease & dessist, I mean a friend of mine recieved a letter from FBI cause he was caught watching *dirty stuff* on the net
With that settled, I must say that I am disappointed. I thought you people knew more than this...
This is the reason I chose to make a fan game: If I make an original game, SOME JERK WILL most definatley come and steal my stuff cause it ain't copyrighted, AND what's worse, MAKE $$$ with MY IDEEA!!!!! It's happened to me once, and I won't do it again. If I am to work on an original game again I want to rest assured that my stuff is safe! If I want to (usually I do) I WILL release it opensource. Whereas making a fangame is neutral to me, the worst woul be a cease & dessist, I mean a friend of mine recieved a letter from FBI cause he was caught watching *dirty stuff* on the net
With that settled, I must say that I am disappointed. I thought you people knew more than this...
I don't live in the USA! In my country Copyright (Author's rights) is granted by a sort of "certificate" (I know it from my mom, she has one of these in the naval field) which costs money (a measly amount, no prob) and time (lots of it, because of bureaucracy), so it's not like in his article. I do have it on paper, actually I have whole game design doc on it (my original game not my fangame).
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Copyrights are yours when you make something indeed. That said, having certificate about the copyright helps you prove that you indeed had it, and you aren't just making it up now. Acquiring a copyright certificate however varies from country to country, there's no real general rule on how to do that. Mostly you have to fill in a form about the requested copyright, pass it to the right place with some $$$ and wait for it to get granted. (Well, that's how it works here.)
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Are we controlled, or is our own will...?
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