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User avatar #34 - callmesenpai (09/16/2012) [-]
That would actually make an awesome Subway commercial.
User avatar #61 to #34 - saxophan (09/16/2012) [-]
They'd better have to pay OP out the ass for that it it happens
#119 to #61 - dubmaster (09/16/2012) [-]
He likes it in the ass better.
#123 to #119 - saxophan (09/16/2012) [-]
I was really hoping someone would make that joke.
User avatar #105 to #61 - TheBarneyStinson (09/16/2012) [-]
He doesn't exactly have copyright on the story. They could just, you know, do it.
User avatar #109 to #105 - candidvres **User deleted account** (09/16/2012) [-]
UNLESS.. He wrote somewhere after (or will write after magically, somehow seeing this comment) (C) (Insert Name)
User avatar #136 to #109 - TheBarneyStinson (09/16/2012) [-]
I'm pretty sure having copyright's not as simple as just saying you have copyright, but it's worth a shot.
#149 to #136 - N. Korean citizen (09/16/2012) [-]
Depending on the legal team opposing you, having a documented copy of the idea with date published constitutes a copyright. You could send the idea to yourself in an email, which could be verified by both the email and your email provider. To make things more simple, OP could simply show the court this page. Funnyjunk would have a time and date for when this was posted, and the kim jong could verify it. Assuming Subway did not start production of the commercial before this was posted, OP could have a case against them. Of course Subway's legal team could claim they conceived the idea before OP, but he still might stand a chance.
User avatar #150 to #149 - TheBarneyStinson (09/16/2012) [-]
Really? I didn't know that. But fighting a corporation as big as Subway still sounds like a bad idea. It wouldn't be difficult to claim they've been working on the commercial for months, and with enough money on your side, it's pretty simple to give your opponent the burden of truth.
User avatar #238 to #150 - captainrattrap (09/16/2012) [-]
I would go for a settlement, not for a whole lawsuit.
User avatar #143 to #136 - candidvres **User deleted account** (09/16/2012) [-]
Well, maybe, I'm not sure to be honest.

It'd make sense though, if you think of it. He creates a story, claims it as his own (which it would have been if he didn't make it up

But I don't know how it works, as you I presume.
User avatar #148 to #143 - TheBarneyStinson (09/16/2012) [-]
Oh, I thought you were kidding. To get copyright, you have to apply for a patent. This is basically to make sure that, say, if you came up with a brilliant idea, and wanted to spend years of your life working on it before it's published, I can't just swoop in, crap out my version of your story that took me five minutes to make, and have copyright over your idea. The first person to successfully apply for copyright gets to publish the material at their own rate, as well as decide who else is allowed to publish "official" works under that license. Likewise, you can only copyright specific things. The reason TV shows like South Park and musicians like "Weird Al" are allowed to exist is because, if you're not literally using copyrighted characters, locations, etc. you're allowed to parody/ satirize just about anything.
User avatar #181 to #148 - candidvres **User deleted account** (09/16/2012) [-]
I see.

Well, I obviously stumbled upon a subject I don't know shit about.
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