Hey, here it is!!

Oct 26, 2007 04:16

Oh look, it is the original hampster dance, without all the ridiculous frills and stupidity and complicatedness and NONCUTENESS that have overtaken the original creator!

Sadly, I guess webhamster.com is prevented from using the classic `hampster' typo by copyright or somesuch. Can typos be trademarked/copyrighted?

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lightflake October 26 2007, 20:01:43 UTC
Oh, the memories of screwing around in the lower school computer lab...

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Copyright, trademark anonymous November 3 2007, 21:29:26 UTC
One could not copyright a word. Copyright applies / inheres in a "work" when it is created. (This is a separate issue from the extra legal rights you get in the US from registering a copyright.)
A word with a typo could very easily be trademarked. Trademark can apply to pretty much any distinguishing feature of a commodity, logo, color scheme, shape, etc. The basic question in trademark violation cases is, "Does party B's use have the potential to cause confusion among the customers of party A?"
So, for instance, when Apple Computer started up, they made an agreement with Apple Records (the Beatles' label) that Apple Records would not pursue Apple Computers as long as Apple Computers stayed out of the music business. Of course, as we all know, things can change :-)

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Re: Copyright, trademark aliothsan November 3 2007, 21:31:20 UTC
Yeah, I always forget what the distinction between them is.

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