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I was wondering if anyone knew anything about Copyrighting

I want to make a website, and would like to know if i would i have to copyright my:

Company name
Photographs
Website Design/layout
Logos/Graphics

or does it really matter? need any insites and information you guys can give me.

Prety easy here in holland. If you put a copyright symbol ©, a year and a name in there it's copyrighted...dunno about the US though

Company Name: if its a registered business name, its already copyrighted

Photographs, Design, Logos, Graphics:

put a disclaimer and the copyright symbol, with year and you name (real, not fake for this), and you should be covered the world over i think :)

If you want to cp your company name you should go here (http://www.uspto.gov/). you will have to do a search & see if the name is already taken.

Edit: Watch the life links...

This post has been edited by DutchKid: Mar 21 2004, 09:17 PM

ahh, thanks alot kilroy



Also i was wondering, if my company name is "ma1nstream industries"

and another company "mainstream industries" exists, could they possibly sue me?



also about the domain name, there is a mainstream.com but its not "mainstream industries" is "Mainstream Electronic Information Services, Inc."

if i were to get ma1nstream.com, could they do anything?

:huh: Well, here in Australia, the government wont allow you to register a business name if it is TOO close to another business in your state - for the sake of people getting the two businesses mixed up. And in your case, it's kinda hard to not mix up the two names - :unsure:

mainstream industries
ma1nstream industries

..they're practically identical.. :blink:

yea, i was just wondering, actually mainstream industries doesnt exist...

but reading up on that link from kilroy, it seems as if i have to pay 355$ to copyright that name.... :-\

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which isnt really worth it, since im not starting a buissness to sell stuff or anything
i just dont want to get sued :)

mabey i will just register the domain and not worry about anything :\

This post has been edited by spidermanx: Mar 21 2004, 12:56 AM

US$355!!?

I just registered my biz name here in Aus and it's only AUD$70 for 3 years.

This post has been edited by enigma: Mar 21 2004, 01:05 AM

I think that if you are in a different line of business you can even have the same name if it is not an already registered name.

Checkers fast food place and Taxi service as an example.

Delta - can be Delta Air Lines or can be Delta Faucet company or Delta Electronics

HTH

-MS2

I think there is a difference between a web business & a regular one. Its hard to believe its 355 for a web one. You might wana call the 800 number & ask.