Tester123

By night i'm a webmaster with 5 clients (produces a nice amount of extra cash) I designed this one website with the slogan Your _blank_ source about 4 months ago. 3 weeks ago one of their competitors came out with their new slogan Your _blank_ news source , its obviously a copy-cat crime, what can i do? I've already emailed their competitor and told them we want our link there, they said no, they had never seen our slogan (yeah, im surrre)..
what do i do?

Cynthetiq

unless you've registered it as a copyright it's a he said she said...

but you should start that process if you want to actually collect something.

that said it costs money to make money, it's not cheap to copyright anything.

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hunnychile

Sorry but you're screwed. Live and learn.

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kel

Aren't things copyrighted automatically when they are published?

Even more strongly when you put a copyright notice on the page?

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clavus

Copyright and registered copyright are two very different things.

Copyright is pretty much free. Just put the little "C" in a circle after it. Registered copyright requires you to (gasp!) register it. The cost is nominal - $25 I think.

I know a ittle teeny tiny bit about copyright law and I'm pretty sure the legal term for your situation is "fucked."

Grit your teeth and move on.

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MSD

Register slogans as trademarks. Copyright your slogans. Otherwise you are fucked.