Copy my car

[Zenmervolt]

Originally posted by: bobcpg

Originally posted by: spidey07
Your car is not copyrighted. Analogy fail.

Are you sure Cars are not copyrighted? Seems to me they would be otherwise you would see Toyota F150's out there.

Styling is not copyrighted.

The actual name of the car may be (famous example: the Porsche 911 was originally the 901, but Peugeot claimed that they had the rights to 3-digit car names with a "0" in the middle because they had been using that naming convention for decades), but that only applies of you're selling the car, which, in your kit car example, you would not be.

However, there are many things you aren't thinking about in the car that are definitely copyrighted. As an example, the stereo in my Volvo has a Dolby Pro-Logic receiver. All of the embedded programming necessary to reproduce Pro-Logic sound is copyrighted by Dolby Laboratories, Incorporated. If I were to completely copy the stereo, I would be in violation of Dolby's copyrights. This could also happen with ECU programming, as well as things like the electronic locks, etc.

ZV

 

[DrPizza]

Is it a copyright violation to listen to the music on the purchased CD, convert them into a stored memory in your head, and sing the song while taking a shower? (Probably, according to the RIAA)

 

[BoomerD]

Originally posted by: MikeyIs4Dcats
you mean something like this?

http://jalopnik.com/5065896/ha...ally-sees-light-of-day

Or like this: http://www.thorschrock.com/nucleus/media/1/cadillac.jpg

 

[SMOGZINN]

Originally posted by: DrPizza
Is it a copyright violation to listen to the music on the purchased CD, convert them into a stored memory in your head, and sing the song while taking a shower? (Probably, according to the RIAA)

Yes actually, RIAA has claimed in the past that singing a song is copyright violation. Look up the case where the girl scouts were sued for singing common campfire songs.
Would they sue you for singing in the shower? No.
Could they sue you for singing in the shower? Yes.

 

[nakedfrog]

Originally posted by: DrPizza
Is it a copyright violation to listen to the music on the purchased CD, convert them into a stored memory in your head, and sing the song while taking a shower? (Probably, according to the RIAA)

I'm walking around with a head full of stolen music! :Q
I didn't explicitly pay them for memory retention rights.

 

[SMOGZINN]

Originally posted by: nakedfrog

Originally posted by: DrPizza
Is it a copyright violation to listen to the music on the purchased CD, convert them into a stored memory in your head, and sing the song while taking a shower? (Probably, according to the RIAA)

I'm walking around with a head full of stolen music! :Q
I didn't explicitly pay them for memory retention rights.

Shh.... A court could order them confiscated and destroyed. For the good of society you know.

 

[Demon-Xanth]

GM did enter litigation with Year One because of the fact that you could build a 1969 Camaro from their catalog.

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: SMOGZINN

Originally posted by: DrPizza
Is it a copyright violation to listen to the music on the purchased CD, convert them into a stored memory in your head, and sing the song while taking a shower? (Probably, according to the RIAA)

Yes actually, RIAA has claimed in the past that singing a song is copyright violation. Look up the case where the girl scouts were sued for singing common campfire songs.
Would they sue you for singing in the shower? No.
Could they sue you for singing in the shower? Yes.

I think the issue there is that it's a "public performance," like watching a movie at a daycare center. Singing in your shower isn't a public performance.

 

[Demon-Xanth]

Originally posted by: mugs

Originally posted by: SMOGZINN

Originally posted by: DrPizza
Is it a copyright violation to listen to the music on the purchased CD, convert them into a stored memory in your head, and sing the song while taking a shower? (Probably, according to the RIAA)

Yes actually, RIAA has claimed in the past that singing a song is copyright violation. Look up the case where the girl scouts were sued for singing common campfire songs.
Would they sue you for singing in the shower? No.
Could they sue you for singing in the shower? Yes.

I think the issue there is that it's a "public performance," like watching a movie at a daycare center. Singing in your shower isn't a public performance.

In the UK it was determined that playing the radio in a taxi cab was considered a public performance.

 

[AmdEmAll]

Pics?

 

[xSauronx]

Originally posted by: Demon-Xanth

Originally posted by: mugs

Originally posted by: SMOGZINN

Originally posted by: DrPizza
Is it a copyright violation to listen to the music on the purchased CD, convert them into a stored memory in your head, and sing the song while taking a shower? (Probably, according to the RIAA)

Yes actually, RIAA has claimed in the past that singing a song is copyright violation. Look up the case where the girl scouts were sued for singing common campfire songs.
Would they sue you for singing in the shower? No.
Could they sue you for singing in the shower? Yes.

I think the issue there is that it's a "public performance," like watching a movie at a daycare center. Singing in your shower isn't a public performance.

In the UK it was determined that playing the radio in a taxi cab was considered a public performance.

a taxi is generally accepted as a public place of sorts. my shower isnt

but sometimes...just sometimes, i wish it was :brokenheart:

 

[Demon-Xanth]

Originally posted by: xSauronx

Originally posted by: Demon-Xanth
In the UK it was determined that playing the radio in a taxi cab was considered a public performance.

a taxi is generally accepted as a public place of sorts. my shower isnt

but sometimes...just sometimes, i wish it was :brokenheart:

My point being, if they can push it, they will.

 

[DrPizza]

Originally posted by: xSauronx

Originally posted by: Demon-Xanth

Originally posted by: mugs

Originally posted by: SMOGZINN

Originally posted by: DrPizza
Is it a copyright violation to listen to the music on the purchased CD, convert them into a stored memory in your head, and sing the song while taking a shower? (Probably, according to the RIAA)

Yes actually, RIAA has claimed in the past that singing a song is copyright violation. Look up the case where the girl scouts were sued for singing common campfire songs.
Would they sue you for singing in the shower? No.
Could they sue you for singing in the shower? Yes.

I think the issue there is that it's a "public performance," like watching a movie at a daycare center. Singing in your shower isn't a public performance.

In the UK it was determined that playing the radio in a taxi cab was considered a public performance.

a taxi is generally accepted as a public place of sorts. my shower isnt

but sometimes...just sometimes, i wish it was :brokenheart:

But, if you're a college student singing in a bathroom that is a common area... then, you're a PIRATE! Yep, it's those college kids.

 

[rh71]

China is copying cars all the time now.

 

[bobdole369]

you will have to apply for a new VIN.[/]

This. You would have to register it as a "kit" car and title it that way too. Same way they do it when you re-make a 30's style hot-rod, like Tim Taylor built piece by piece.

Nothing illegal about this - short of maybe if you tried to sell it "as original". You could only sell it as a "replica".