September 30, 2011
2. Newblog2011: 09/30/11 Five-finger discount by "Dexter"
The other night, I saw an ad on TV for the show, “Dexter.” The ad was playing a song that was an important part of a script I wrote for Friday Night Lights and that I later copyrighted on Friendster in 2010.
The song is “Personal Jesus” by Depeche Mode.
The fact that I copyrighted the scripts on the Internet counts. I wrote the copyright notice after each of them, with my name and the date. It doesn’t matter that I copyrighted them one at a time on Friendster, taking each one off that profile when I was ready to copyright the next one, in 2010, after they’d been circulating in the entertainment industry for a couple of years and were getting ripped off.
My having copyrighted those scripts on the Internet counts as their first public appearance, counts as copyrighting them, even though I don’t now have them on the Internet anywhere.
I did write, when I copyrighted those scenes, “Would anyone who has a problem with my having included anything written by them or alluded to by me in my scripts please let me know?”
Nobody ever contacted me with any complaints along those lines.
Copyright, with noted exceptions, L. Kochman September 30, 2011 @ 3:14 p.m.
2. Newblog2011: 09/30/11 Five-finger discount by "Dexter"
The other night, I saw an ad on TV for the show, “Dexter.” The ad was playing a song that was an important part of a script I wrote for Friday Night Lights and that I later copyrighted on Friendster in 2010.
The song is “Personal Jesus” by Depeche Mode.
The fact that I copyrighted the scripts on the Internet counts. I wrote the copyright notice after each of them, with my name and the date. It doesn’t matter that I copyrighted them one at a time on Friendster, taking each one off that profile when I was ready to copyright the next one, in 2010, after they’d been circulating in the entertainment industry for a couple of years and were getting ripped off.
My having copyrighted those scripts on the Internet counts as their first public appearance, counts as copyrighting them, even though I don’t now have them on the Internet anywhere.
I did write, when I copyrighted those scenes, “Would anyone who has a problem with my having included anything written by them or alluded to by me in my scripts please let me know?”
Nobody ever contacted me with any complaints along those lines.
Copyright, with noted exceptions, L. Kochman September 30, 2011 @ 3:14 p.m.