Comments by "" (@sirtra) on "Open Source Project DESTROYED By Legal Threats" video.

  1. ​ @keoghanwhimsically2268  it's not being anal, its about being legally and technically correct. Fairly important aspects given the context of the video, no? The recipe for Coca Cola and Colonel Sanders 12 herbs and spices are examples of intellectual property that is not and can not be protected by copyright. Copyright is actually very niche in the world of business - it's moreso about books, movies, music etc. The logos for Coca Cola and KFC (the picture of Colonel Sanders) are examples of things protected NOT protected by copyright but by trademarks. Sonic the Hedgehog and Super Mario Brother are examples of things which are protected by both trademark and copyright - which depends on context. If i were to create a game with a little blue echidna that ran really fast and collected coins called Super Mario Echidna that would breach copyright but not trademark. If i were to create an online poker game and called it Sonic the Hedgehog Poker, even if it didnt include the little blue hedgehog or anything else relating to that little guy this would be a breach of trademark. Likewise if i called it SillyPoker but then threw a large picture of a blue hedgehog that resembles Sonic as the cover art or title screen etc. Distinction is very important and anyone with the opinion that it doesn't matter, or worse that Intellectual Property as a whole should not exist, has not and likely never will create anything of value. Don't be that guy. No one should want to be that guy and yet i see several of them here in this thread. Throwing 12 herbs n spices over some chicken aint complicated or difficult, almost anyone could do it - but figuring out which 12 and the ratios to give an intended outcome or result is. Colonel Sanders was not a giant multinational company, it was these protections which allowed him to go from a nobody to a somebody. Same with McDonald's and just about every other western multinational company. The law protects both large and small, and those abusing it both large and small, should also face repercussions. The alternative of scrapping all these protections will essentially result in even more cheap knock-off stuff not only from China but from anywhere, anytime by anyone - is that a world you want to live in?
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