I wonder if it's legal to copyright something like that? That kind of slogans are easy to invent all by yourself and someone might very well print a shirt or make a button with a text valitettavasti en voi auttaa without copying it from anywhere. How can Mentalwear possibly claim that an ordinary sentence like that was copied from their shirt? Didn't someone from our circles try to find out about copyright laws when we were manufacturing buttons to Finncon several years back? I remember it was allowed to print and sell for example quotes from the movies. Or am I just dreaming...?
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Date: 2006-04-03 03:34 pm (UTC)I wonder if it's legal to copyright something like that? That kind of slogans are easy to invent all by yourself and someone might very well print a shirt or make a button with a text valitettavasti en voi auttaa without copying it from anywhere. How can Mentalwear possibly claim that an ordinary sentence like that was copied from their shirt?
Didn't someone from our circles try to find out about copyright laws when we were manufacturing buttons to Finncon several years back? I remember it was allowed to print and sell for example quotes from the movies. Or am I just dreaming...?