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What is the name of your state? North Dakota
I've designed a T-shirt graphic that included a "target" or "bull's eye" shape. But after I had created it, I noticed that some company had a cubic baby toy with the practically the same target design (same shape, same color, same pattern). Am I infringing thier copyright even though my "target" was created completely independently as a part of my design on a completely defferent medium? I wasn't sure how copyright stuff worked on basic shapes... after all, there are only limited ways to draw squres, circles or target shapes, right?
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"Am I infringing thier copyright even though my "target" was created completely independently as a part of my design on a completely defferent medium?"
No, because a completely independent creation, by definition, cannot infringe a copyright. Of course, the more complete the copying and the more complex the copied work is, the harder it would be to prove that you created the work completely independently. However, a simple geometric design wouldn't fit that description at all.
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And how much money are you willing to spend to defend your design? When the letter arrives from a mutinational conglomerate that spends millions defending their trademarks, what will you do?
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If a basic shape can be copyrighted, I'm registering hexy.
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[quote]Originally posted by HomeGuru
If a basic shape can be copyrighted, I'm registering hexy.
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My response:
That was funny.
I got dibs on Mary! (with cigar in hand, and with a Groucho Marx voice) "Now, that's one heck of a shape!"
IAAL