Becco_UK opened this issue on Aug 18, 2004 ยท 110 posts
Sephyn74 posted Wed, 18 August 2004 at 11:07 PM
No. you guys are blowing this all out of proportion. First of all, those signs that read "we reserve the right to refuse service to anyone" are mostly bogus. they're put up to thwart lawsuits. If a store is open to the public it means its open to the public. It can't deny service to ANYONE (durring normal business hours while the store is open for business, for those who want to get extremely technical), regardless of what signs it puts up. 99.9% of the time those signs are enforced and no one does anything about it. However, there are people who have been refused service in the past at various places with signs like that posted, and it becomes a lawsuit. Ask the owners of Denny's who suffered massive lawsuits when they refused service to two specific, and unrelated, groups of individuals. AND THATS NOT EVEN WHAT I WAS GETTING AT. If you go to walmart and cause trouble, yes they can kick you out. But they can't legally prevent you from coming back. Nor can they legally refuse to sell you something (IF ITS AVAILABLE FOR SALE). If you go to walmart and something happens (injury, damage to your personal property, etc), that results in you suing them, they can't use that as a means of doing business with you in the future. (Nor can they use that as grounds for not employing you either). For those of you who like to get technical, i'm just using walmart and denny's as an example. Any store or resturant, etc that is OPEN TO THE PUBLIC falls under the same laws. As for copyright and original owners, etc., I admit I was wrong for generalizing it as much as I did originally. More specifically, If one person created a prop for poser, (an EXAMPLE, people), and another person came along and ALTERED that prop, the ALTERED VERSION would, in MOST CASES, become the property of the person who altered it. (Geeze, now I know why directions on the back of pizza boxes tell you to remove the plastic wrapper BEFORE you put it in the oven)...