02-17-2008, 10:54 AM
Well, we had a serious copyright brush with the German museum park Xanten. http://www.romanarmy.com/rat/viewtopic.php?t=14994
The point is the exhibit or performance issue. If you make something into an exhibit or performance, like buying a 2000 year old helmet, giving it a good wipe, sticking it into a display case with a card and/or a picture, you have the copyright of that exhibition. As for performance, hire a bunch of re-enactors, give them a location and have them perform, he presto, copyright is yours. Make sure you make the group sign away their rights, like Xanten does!
This of course is something totally different then claiming copyright to a shielddesign, but there are similarities. The seven points of difference from the original on TC are readily achieved (size, angle variation, colourscheme, placing of the crescents, size of boss), making the shielddesign a unique creation by the person or group and subject to copyright.
hock:
Apart from the technicalities above, I do still hold the opinion that squabbling over petty issues like copyright of a shielddesign between re-enactments groups is "conduct unbecoming a centurion", a sure sign of taking oneself far too seriously and behavior that should be ridiculed. :lol:
I am still curious of the outcome of the copyright lawsuit between the two German groups that split up.
The point is the exhibit or performance issue. If you make something into an exhibit or performance, like buying a 2000 year old helmet, giving it a good wipe, sticking it into a display case with a card and/or a picture, you have the copyright of that exhibition. As for performance, hire a bunch of re-enactors, give them a location and have them perform, he presto, copyright is yours. Make sure you make the group sign away their rights, like Xanten does!
This of course is something totally different then claiming copyright to a shielddesign, but there are similarities. The seven points of difference from the original on TC are readily achieved (size, angle variation, colourscheme, placing of the crescents, size of boss), making the shielddesign a unique creation by the person or group and subject to copyright.
hock: Apart from the technicalities above, I do still hold the opinion that squabbling over petty issues like copyright of a shielddesign between re-enactments groups is "conduct unbecoming a centurion", a sure sign of taking oneself far too seriously and behavior that should be ridiculed. :lol:
I am still curious of the outcome of the copyright lawsuit between the two German groups that split up.
