Talk:Icon theft
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I don't know if we want to fix this or not, but technically, something is copyrighted at the point of creation thanks to the Berne Convention, so we have a wee bit of a factual issue here. --Badlydrawnjeff 11:55, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)
- yes, it's wasn't the satire nor the parody to be wrong and it wasn't particularly the funny. What it needs to say, is that to have meaningful copyright you have to have something of value to protect. Copyright exists to protect the investment by the creator. Some chick may have "copyright" over her baby pictures, but to have legal recourse to infringment, she has to prove she lost value. SchmuckyTheCat 14:01, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)
- Right, I just wanted to make sure we weren't looking like asses here. Although that's great drama fodder, too... --Badlydrawnjeff 14:22, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Something of note is the mention of "fandom" - since something is popular, everyone copies it, and if everyone does it it's socially accepted, and then it's not copyrighted... because they never think that far. Like porn. {∞}
