Copyrights And The Character Masks We All Buy...

[🪦 stainboy ●]

<!--quoteo(post=294253:date=Jan 23 2009, 11:41 PM:name=puckface)<div class=\'quotetop\'>QUOTE(puckface @ Jan 23 2009, 11:41 PM) <a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=294253\"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class=\'quotemain\'><!--quotecBig companies aren't always the ones who hold the rights to important products. Sometimes "Joe the plumber" can "claim" to have all the rights for a product and produce copies of his item all by himself. In cases such as which, I've seen first hand these "right" holders become worried that his/her product may not sell as well if other people are selling the same or even SIMILAR products.<!--QuoteEnd</div><!--QuoteEEndYeah, I can see that being a pain in the ass problem for your friend. But I guess my statement was just speaking of the mask world (in allusion to carter1010's original post). Obviously, small time maskmakers hurt when someone recasts their original design of an original mask. But then again, that maskmaker has every right to apply to the U.S. Patent Office and file a patent. The U.S. Constitution affords every person that exact, specific right. That way, the "right" holder would be able to send his own C&D's out. No one would legally be able to even sell similar products, let alone the same.But for those mask makers who take the image of a copyrighted character (like a NewLine horror character), well there's obviously no way that the mask maker can have any legitimate legal claim to a copyright as it's not their creation (even if they sculpted the thing out of clay themselves.....if the sculpt was sculpted off of an image from a trademarked character...it's copyright infringement. No butts about it).