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Originally Posted by Quoth
As soon as it starts to be written or recorded in any fashion, it's copyright today. It doesn't have to written, a chapter of a book dictated (using ANY recording method) has the same rights as a published book.
Also Patents and Design Patents/Registered Design are absolutely copyright ALSO and that mess is an extension of copyright. An expired patent or invalid patent, unless plagiarised, is absolutely copyrighted. You can't at all discuss copyright reform without also considering Patents and Design Patents/Registered Design and even to an extent Trademarks, including the text, style and logo.
You can't copyright a title. Yet no-one can use the names of the Seven Dwarves in Disney's version of Snow White as the names of dwarves. Though that was written in maybe 1936. The actual non-Disney story is in the Public Domain.
Copyright isn't just the manuscript source of books, or books.
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You don't seem to be reading my posts at all, as we are complete agreement about when copyright comes into existence.
Certainly the text of a patent is copyright, but that has no bearing on the substance of a patent, which is of an entirely different kind of protection to copyright.
Trademarks are also entirely different.
Any further posts in this thread on patents or trademarks will be moved to a new thread.