[Stealth]

Is Hard Light Productions a licensed and copyrighted name?  I mean, with the whole source code project and everything, shouldn't it be?  

...or is it already and i just don't know about it

[Stryke 9]

Why? Everything here is free, except for the stuff Volition owns, innit?

[an0n]

Intellectual property. It doesn't really need copyrighting.

[Stryke 9]

I'm sure some big, faceless corporation's gonna go to some huge effort to find this place and steal our ideas, but still- so? Either you're just making them for your entertainment, and that of fellow HLPers, or you can market the bleeding things anyway. And come up with new ideas.

[CP5670]

Well, as far as I can tell (from a google search) we are the only "Hard Light Productions" on the internet and I have not heard of any such name in real life. Although Stryke is probably right in that the possibility exists of some stupid corporation using the name and then bug us about it, but there is no need to bothering copyrighting this unless it is free.

[Stryke 9]

It's unlikely THEY'D bother US about it, since first off we're pretty damn obscure (does HLP even appear on search engine lists?), and second off there are many people who know that we had the name first.

[IceFire]

Usually unless they are in direct competition....name crossovers isn't a big issue I think.

[Knight Templar]

Actually "Hard Light Productions" comes up bout 6 times form 1st to 6th in google. Try it sometime.

[Star Dragon]

It is a big deal. Just how important is it to you? Not that there will ever be an issue in the future, but it is a possibility...

[Stealth]

Originally posted by Star Dragon
It is a big deal. Just how important is it to you? Not that there will ever be an issue in the future, but it is a possibility...

i dunno... i just think it'd be cool to actually be a registered company, etc.

then we can have t-shirts and stuff... i'd be proud to wear a "hard Light Productions" hat or something!

[Stealth]

i'm not saying register it in case anyone else tries to take it, i just think it'd be cool!

[Galemp]

Originally posted by Stealth
then we can have t-shirts and stuff... i'd be proud to wear a "hard Light Productions" hat or something!

*sigh*

[Stealth]

Originally posted by GalacticEmperor


*sigh*

but wouldn't it be better if we could actually buy those shirts, etc. and know that it's LICENSED!

[Stunaep]

Originally posted by Stealth


but wouldn't it be better if we could actually buy those shirts, etc. and know that it's LICENSED!

no.

[Fineus]

Wait a sec... can we buy that stuff? I mean in the UK. Some of it looks damn cool, and Christmas is coming

[Top Gun]

Just use the GPL or some simmilar licence.

[Stealth]

Originally posted by Thunder
Wait a sec... can we buy that stuff? I mean in the UK. Some of it looks damn cool, and Christmas is coming

as far as i know you can purchase from anywhere in the world.

shipping expenses may be a little higher, but oh well...


FREESPACE STORE (p1mping for GalacticEmperor):
http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,10978.0.html

[Joey_21]

I don't know if we'll have a problem with big corporations coming in here and messing with us, because first they would have to find out if the material/name is copyrighted (else if the material/name is copyrighted they would be in a big lawsuit), and if they ask, the admins can say 'yes' and it would be no big deal and they would have to find some other name.

[Stealth]

Originally posted by Joey_21
and if they ask, the admins can say 'yes' and it would be no big deal

you realize it's not very hard at all to see if a name is registered/copyrighted at all!  and if the admins say 'yes' and lie, then they can be taken to court, and i'm sure we wouldn't want that to happen.  

i'm not saying register it because some big corporation is going to want to buy it or something!  but in the future it might be a good idea to consider it

[Joey_21]

Originally posted by Stealth


you realize it's not very hard at all to see if a name is registered/copyrighted at all!  and if the admins say 'yes' and lie, then they can be taken to court, and i'm sure we wouldn't want that to happen.  

i'm not saying register it because some big corporation is going to want to buy it or something!  but in the future it might be a good idea to consider it

Can't necessarily be taken to court, because nobody really owns the name and therefore, if they say yes, it wouldn't hurt HLP or anything. They can get their own names.