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Aliantha 01-01-2008 05:42 AM

The Pyramids as we know them are a lot more than a stack of rocks. As you well know, they hold religious significance to the extent that they are burial tombs for kings who were living Gods.

I think they will win the right to this copywrite, but people will still make knock off souveniers because they wont be exact replicas and therefor not subject to copywrite law.

Ibby 01-01-2008 05:58 AM

*wince*

It's copyright, not copywrite. As in, the right to copy.

TheMercenary 01-01-2008 06:09 AM

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Originally Posted by Aliantha (Post 420596)
The Pyramids as we know them are a lot more than a stack of rocks. As you well know, they hold religious significance to the extent that they are burial tombs for kings who were living Gods.

I think they will win the right to this copywrite, but people will still make knock off souveniers because they wont be exact replicas and therefor not subject to copywrite law.

And the Bald Eagle and our Stars and Stripes are much more than colors and a bird to millions of non-Americans.

richlevy 01-01-2008 09:32 AM

The government of Egypt did not build or design the pyramids, the architect Imhotep did, sometime around 2630 B.C.E. Assuming anyone wants to enforce a 4600-year-old copyright, then his descendants own the rights to the pyramid unless he signed a work-for-hire contract with his employer, the Pharoah Djoser.

I'm pretty sure Djoser forgot to secure the video rights too.

Griff 01-01-2008 10:14 AM

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Originally Posted by richlevy (Post 420626)
The government of Egypt did not build or design the pyramids, the architect Imhotep did, sometime around 2630 B.C.E. Assuming anyone wants to enforce a 4600-year-old copyright, then his descendants own the rights to the pyramid unless he signed a work-for-hire contract with his employer, the Pharoah Djoser.

I'm pretty sure Djoser forgot to secure the video rights too.

I was just about to say this. Under our view of copyright they have no case.

SteveDallas 01-01-2008 10:38 AM

You'd think so, wouldn't you?

Or would you?

Aliantha 01-01-2008 05:46 PM

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Originally Posted by Ibram (Post 420597)
*wince*

It's copyright, not copywrite. As in, the right to copy.

lucky no one cares if you can spell or not huh? ;)

glatt 01-03-2008 08:15 AM

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Originally Posted by Aliantha (Post 420591)
you can't put a copywrite on colours.

Sure you can. See for example, Blue Monochrome copyright 1961 by Yves Klein.

Also, the color PINK is a registered trademark of Owens Corning.

Aliantha 01-03-2008 06:35 PM

Cadbury lost an argument about their purple colour over here glatt. Apparently they're appealing the decision. Time will tell I guess. Here's one article about it.
With regard to the colours red, white and blue, there are a huge number of flags that use the exact same colours. I think if it were possible to copyright those three colours, someone already would have done so.

richlevy 01-13-2008 03:49 PM

I use artificial sweeteners. I buy generic blue packets which are Aspertame, sold as Equal(tm) in blue packets. I also sometimes find generic pink packets which are a dextrose and saccharin, the ingredients in Sweet'N Low (tm), sold in pink packets. Soon there will be a generic equivalent of the ssucralose sold as Splenda (tm) in the same yellow packet.

Everyone seems happy with this arrangement.


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