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Re: Obtaining Copyrights
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Another reason why someone might want to copyright their website is because they have original ideas or material that they don't want others to steal or use and try to claim owndership. Even though this isn't in the spirit of FIRST, outsiders could always come in and take things like fundraising ideas, "business" setups, transmission designs, etc., and claim them for their own and use them for profitability. And we all know, if anyone needs the profit... its us... lol
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Ummmm transmission designs need to have a patent not a copyright.
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One reason that comes to mind is to protect ourselves against misrepresentation of our team or FIRST. We can't really prevent someone from claiming to be a member of SPAM and "misbehaving" in some manner that would reflect poorly on us, but if they were to use some image or logo taken from the website to give them credibility we would have some other legal options to stop them. It hasn't happened and I don't expect it to, just thinking out loud.
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It's happened before. I know of one guy who has used other people's pictures of Battlebots to make a profit.
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