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The Gajos
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Hello us users!

I wanna ask you for some important thing for my know.
If user will upload file outside unrealsoftware.de and he doesn't say anything about copyrights, but says that he is the author, it comes to GNU GPL license if he doesn't determine copyrights?

So if another user will use his parts from the file, he needn't to ask him about the permissions of use?

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@user Talented Doge: GNU GPL belongs under Public License.

EDIT: Ups, my mistake. You may be right but I don't know. I was searching about Public License and not Public Domain, thats why I went wrong.
edited 1×, last 13.07.15 12:03:20 pm

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Talented Doge
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GNU/GPL or shortly GPL is NOT Public Domain. The work, if not attached with any license, it goes to an aspect which the law of copyright of the published country of the work. Otherwise the work would be at public domain.

Public Domain and Public License is two different concept.

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ohaz
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Exactly what user Talented Doge said. Most files on unrealsoftware do not have a license file. If the license file is missing, the file falls under the laws of copyright. That means, you are most likely NOT allowed to share them.

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@user ohaz: I lol'd. How do you know the laws if its aren't said. For me you can do what you wanna if there isn't '(c) somebody'.

Btw. If there is only (c) ..., it says 'All rights reserved'?

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@user The Gajos: No. "©" together with your name and date of release is used to signify ownership and that the released content/product cannot be reproduced/distributed/used in public and so on and on without prior permission from the owner.
In a sense, it kinda means what you guessed it does but it's definitely not the exact definition of what "©" does.

then there's ® which means it's been registered in a 'special' office (the name of the product/content) and 'tm' (soz dont remember the alt code for it) if it hasn't been registered.

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user The Gajos has written
@user ohaz: I lol'd. How do you know the laws if its aren't said.

The hosting is probably located in Germany, so Germany laws are applied.

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@user Yates: What da hell? Anything about Internet is located in USA. Every domain and other. They can block any country of Internet but fortunately every country has his own DNS server but you won't be able to contact someone from outside the country, because they will block all IP .

@user Rainoth: Why © doesn't say that this element doesn't have 'All rights reserved' sing? It makes no sense.

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@user Rainoth: Because it mentions the most important rights a person would wish to have when having copy rights. As I've said, saying "all rights reserved" would mean that the content is totally private and less 'open'. Just using "©" is kinda more open I think...

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@user ohaz: I lol'd. How do you know the laws if its aren't said. For me you can do what you wanna if there isn't '(c) somebody'.

Btw. If there is only (c) ..., it says 'All rights reserved'?

> First of all, the server is probably hosted somewhere in germany or france (Strato is a german hoster). So german/french laws apply. And both countries have a rather strict copyright law.
> Also, you don't need to write (c) for something to be under your copyright. You have a copyright on everything you produce automatically in germany, as long as it's not just simple thoughts or simple stuff. If you put work into it, you automatically have copyright (unless you specify otherwise, for example with a LICENSE file)

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@user Yates: What da hell? Anything about Internet is located in USA. Every domain and other. They can block any country of Internet but fortunately every country has his own DNS server but you won't be able to contact someone from outside the country, because they will block all IP .
Stop talking bullshit. A lot of services may be in the US, yes. But domains are usually "located" at the country that owns them. Since .de is a german domain, http://www.denic.de/ has it.

Also, the US can not block any country off the internet. They can block countries out of their own servers. They could block all of europe out of the servers hosted in the US. They can not block "the internet". There is no such thing as a central communication point in the internet. You can contact EVERYTHING that is not in america, even if the US decides to block off everybody. That's how the internet works. That's how the TCP/IP and UDP/IP protocols work.

Please inform yourself before you start talking about stuff. You are completely wrong but make it seem like others are wrong. That's bad.

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Also, you don't need to write (c) for something to be under your copyright. You have a copyright on everything you produce automatically in germany, as long as it's not just simple thoughts or simple stuff. If you put work into it, you automatically have copyright (unless you specify otherwise, for example with a LICENSE file)

So, what's the default laws? I guess that it's not 'All rights reserved'.
Can I see the quote?

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user The Gajos has written
Can I see the quote?
there you go

Especially:
Section I, Article 1 has written
The authors of works in the literary, scientific and artistic domain enjoy protection for their works in accordance with this Act.

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If you are looking for licenses for your works being posted to here or elsewhere, here is few licenses which you may choose to apply for your works:
•WTFPL
•The MIT License
•GNU/GPL
•GNU/LGPL
•Creative Commons
•Mozilla Public License

Well, you may also choose to release your works under Public Domain, which means everyone may use your work for any purpose, with or without your name on their works.

I use Creative Commons 4.0 BY-SA at the moment.

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I would also use Creative Commons BY-NC-SA or CC BY-SA

But isn't it that where the person uploaded it so where he lives are the conditions? (I live in Germany, so I have no problems with this :D)

(But this doesn't interest me really, because I'm 14 and couldn't start a lawsuite :D)
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