JHoagland opened this issue on Mar 04, 2006 ยท 39 posts
JHoagland posted Sat, 04 March 2006 at 6:10 PM
I just want to be clear about this thread: The issue is not whether we can or can not make copyrighted items. And the issue is not about how companies may feel about "fan art". The issue is also not about whether we can post these kinds of items on this site. All of these issues have been discussed to death and you'll find huge messages threads about all of these topics in the Copyright Forum. The issue here is that some items with copyrighted names seem to be more "allowable" than others. By approving the "Space: 1999" items, the mods are basically saying that they are acceptable, but items with "Star Wars" names are not. I don't see the difference since items that use copyrighted names should be treated the same. But, like I mentioned above, maybe the 3DS Free Stuff section has a different copyright policy. Free items are held for 24 to 48 hours for "checking"- isn't that plenty of time to do a Google search for possibly copyrighted names like "Space: 1999" or "Babylon 5"? --John
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