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Copy right on screen names?

leachy

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Dec 1, 2005
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When rights occur
Copyright is an automatic right and arises whenever an individual or company creates a work. To qualify, a work should be regarded as original, and exhibits a degree of labour, skill or judgement:eek: . So there shouldn't be a problem with that.:D

Interpretation is related to the independent creation rather than the idea behind the creation. For example, your idea for a book would not itself be protected, but the actual content of a book you write would be. In other words, someone else is still entitled to write their own book around the same idea, provided they do not directly copy or adapt yours to do so.

Names,titles, short phrases and colours are not generally considered unique or substantial enough to be covered, but a creation, such as a logo, that combines these elements may be. So you may be infringing the WGP rights.:rolleyes:

In short, work that expresses an idea may be protected, but not the idea behind it.

Who owns a piece of work
Normally the individual or collective who authored the work will exclusively own the work. However, if a work is produced as part of employment then it will normally belong to the person/company who hired the individual.

Only the owner, or his exclusive licensee can bring proceedings in the courts. So if he's only 13 offer him some sweets and he may give you licence to use his name.;)

In conclusion I think that the only problem you may have is with "WGP" and not "WGP4Life":confused: