okay, briefly, just so i have a url to link to instead repeating this 50 times over aim/email/icq or whatever:
it is NOT legal to put copyrighted things in your wallpapers.
how do you know something is copyrighted? simple: EVERYTHING IS. got that? every single thing that is created is copyrighted. so you cant paste mellow's logo in, you cant use that picture of a girl you found online, you cant use the microsoft flag and you cant rip graphics out of worms. are we clear on this?
"but miriku" you say, "i live in cuba, france, or some other third world country where there is no such thing as copyrights!"
doesnt apply. server is hosted in america and as so will follow american laws. k?
c'mon, if you need a photo girl in your wallpaper ask the person who took the photo. or better yet go take a photo of one.
"hey Africa is one and i live in South Arica, cool! "
hmm.. how can africa be a developing country when it's not even a country.. he he. ok, sure i know that every single country in africa are developing countries, but.. you know.. just a technicality ;]
OK guys, u talking about MY wallpaper I guess (Miriku), I know that a lot of things are copyrighted, but I don t want to sell my wall, it s a free thing, so why should I put an ungly not copyrighted picture on wall?! Moreover I m FRENCH and I fuck stupid yankees which say that only america and japan aren t third world countries!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I dont think he/she was using your wallpaper as an example though, just basically all wallpapers in general, but what i did was to buy myself one of those CDs that have 5000 images that are royalty free, that way you dont have to worry about copyrighted stuff.
-Many of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our own point of view. -Ben Kenobi, 'The Return of the Jedi'
heh, some weird gfx. And youd expect something as big as NATO's website to at least have bigger res pictures of flags. Lookie the czech and canadian flags :P
AdamTT - custo admin Attempting to set up a completely different comic strip
"what are you then?" "i'm FRENCH! cant you tell by this outraaaagous accent?" "what you doing in england then?" "mind your own business" "if you do not show us to the grail we will take it by force" "you don't frighten us english pig-dogs. go and boil your bottoms sons of a silly person. i blow my nose in your general direction so-called arthur-king, you and all your silly english k-n-n-n-n-n-i-ggets"
TECHNICALLY unless you have paid the government a large sum of cash, for a 20 year artist copyright certificate - NOTHING is copyrighted and can be taken without the consent of anyone according to the law.
shinter: this is just american law i'm presenting here. for music at least in order to sue someone you have to be registered in the library of congress. i assumed it would be similar for other mediums
justin: yeah... i can build a cutting edge pc for $500 or i can buy a piece of shit mac for triple that. gee, i wonder.
believe it or not, so called Just Insane, some of us actually know about computers and would rather not limit ourselves to those 'fisher price my first pc' things
to sue someone for ripping off your music, you have to prove that a) your piece of music was written first & b) the offending piece of music must contain at least 4 notes in sequence identical to yours (octave may be changed).
No LoC requirement - they don't handle copyright cases. Their core purpose is to keep documentation for the availability of congress.
Anything you create, assuming it doesn not violate someone else's copyright, is under copyright. You don't have to register anything; you don't have to state intent to copyright; you don't have to sign i t, or put a c in a circle, or date it. Anything of that nature may help you if your copyright is challeneged, but it isn't required.
This applies to any country which is a signator in the Bierne convention; afaik, that's almost all non-3rd world countries. France included.
(my bona fide's: I'm the sone of a man who has been working at the LoC for, hrm, 35 years now, and have used its services many a time over a span of 32 years, dating back first to when I was 10... Copyright is a frequent dinner-table discussion topic, as is the LoC's possible role.)
