Re: (TFT) Howard Thompson & TFT

[raito@raito.com]

Quoting Joe Hartley <jh@brainiac.com>:
> On Tue, 4 Oct 2011 16:13:14 -0400
> Cris Fuhrman <fuhrmanator@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Based on some facts I found on the web, Dark City Games bought the
> > trademark to The Fantasy Trip when it lapsed... 
>
> Quite true.  While I'm not a lawyer, I learned a lot about copyright
> and trademark law from having to defend my domain name. 

Yeah, and isn't that fun... (I love it when stupid people try and dork 
with me. Especially when they admit lying to me in their emails.)

> In short, once you've copyrighted a work, that's it.  You're protected
> for the length of the copyright (currently life of the author + 70 years). 
> Trademark is very different.  Even though you may have registered a
> trademark, you must defend it or lose it.  HT may have lost the trademark
> on "The Fantasy Trip" but all the works remain under copyright. 

Well, copyright exists from creation. But registration removes a lot of 
ambiguity if there's a court case. 

And I think some of the music industry legislation regarding original 
act names has to do with a modification to trademark law. 

I've had my share of having to deal with copyright law, like undoing 
the policies of a branch of a non-profit that may as well have 
specifically said, "We break copyright law."

Neil Gilmore
raito@raito.com
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