[MR] One step too far! (Duane Moore)

[Adriana la Bretonne]

The artwork was taken directly from a scroll.  The scribe who created it has
identified it as their own and has a scanned copy of the scroll in their
portfolio.  They are currently considering what actions to take.

-Adriana

On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 12:51 PM, Otto von Schwyz <
ottovonschwyz at bellsouth.net> wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> First I want to say that I'm not a copyright lawyer but I deal with
> copyright issues weekly.  From what I can tell in the photos on the webpage
> just having "Windmasters' Hill" clearly visible is not a copyright
> violation
> nor would it be a trademark violation.
>
>
> Under the current U.S. Copyright Act, copyright protection exists in
> "original works of authorship fixed in a tangible medium of expression."
> For a work to be protected by copyright law, it must be "original."
> However,
> the amount of originality required is extremely small. The work cannot be a
> mere mechanical reproduction of a previous work, nor can the work consists
> of only a few words or a short phrase.
>
> A copyright issue might happen should someone was able to present a scroll
> that looks exactly or very closely like what the shirt has screen printed
> not just the name of a Barony.
>
>
> Yours in Service,
> Herr Otto von Schwyz
> Society Chronicler
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: atlantia-bounces at seahorse.atlantia.sca.org
> [mailto:atlantia-bounces at seahorse.atlantia.sca.org] On Behalf Of
> atlantia-request at seahorse.atlantia.sca.org
> Sent: Friday, July 24, 2009 11:16 AM
> To: atlantia at seahorse.atlantia.sca.org
> Subject: Atlantia Digest, Vol 78, Issue 65
>
> Message: 2
> Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2009 10:31:23 -0400
> From: Vels inn Viggladi <velsthe1 at hotmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [MR] Fwd: [SCA_S&I] As seen on LJ: T shirt designed from
>        a scroll
> To: <atlantia at seahorse.atlantia.sca.org>
> Message-ID: <BAY118-W13B2EF6D900F563139C1898B190 at phx.gbl>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
>
>
>
> Kingdom, not likely.
>
> The original scribe? Oh hell yeah.
>
> Is there a Copyright lawyer in the tavern?
>
>
>
> Vels
> not the artist.
>
> > Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2009 07:01:52 -0400
> > From: arwynn16 at gmail.com
> > To: Atlantia at seahorse.atlantia.sca.org
> > Subject: [MR] Fwd: [SCA_S&I] As seen on LJ: T shirt designed from a
> scroll
> >
> > Too funny!! Can the Kingdom sue? I think it could take care of the
> > travel fund for a few reigns! Tehehe
> >
> > ~Rohesia
> >
>


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Baroness Adriana la Bretonne (Drea Ewing Callicutt)
Barony of Windmasters' Hill / Kingdom of Atlantia

"In order to keep a true perspective of one's importance, everyone should
have a dog that will worship him and a cat that will ignore him."   ~ Dereke
Bruce