[Discuss] Copyright Laws

[Anthony Anderson]

On 12/20/06, Dimitris Zikos <dimitriszzz at yahoo.gr> wrote:
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> So what internet really needs in my humble opinion is
> NOT laws and regulations but proper education and awarness.
>

I don't care one way or the other about the wiki page in question, or the
whole debate on copyright issues, but I will say that breaking current
copyright law is absolutely no way to increase "proper education and
awareness".

Beyond that, your uneducated comment that any reference to the names
Aragorn, Frodo, Conan, etc. is wholly inaccurate.  Names of any sort cannot
be copyrighted.  If anything, they can become trademarked, and even then
this is done so rarely because it must be proven that nobody has used the
name for anything else.  This is why, say, D&D cannot refer to their little
people as "hobbits", so they use halflings.  Similar situation for Lucas'
"lightsaber"- I could call it a "light saber", "litesaber", or even
"lightsabre".
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