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#1 Aug 13 2006 at 12:51 PM Rating: Decent
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hmmm...

was unsure if the EQ forum ist the right one, but OOT seemed even less appropriate...anyhow :-D

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"Allakhazam" "AllaKhazam's Magical Realm" "Knowledge is Power" and "Your Everquest Community"


from the very bottom of the main EQ page - https://everquest.allakhazam.com/

while I understand that Alla and the EQ community can be copyrighted, how does one copyright a common sentence/statement like "knowledge is power"? cause I do smell BS...

anyone out there who knows about copyrights etc. a tad more than I do?
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#2 Aug 13 2006 at 2:50 PM Rating: Default
Why the f'uck do you care?
#3 Aug 13 2006 at 3:51 PM Rating: Good
The actual paragraph reads:

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All information, articles and graphics on this site are the copyright of AllaKhazam's Magical Realm and Allakhazam.com, LLC and may not be copied or reprinted without our express written approval. "Allakhazam" "AllaKhazam's Magical Realm" "Knowledge is Power" and "Your Everquest Community" are all trademarks of AllaKhazam.com, LLC.


Copyrights and trademarks are completely different things. You can read all you like about trademarks here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trademark and copyrights here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright

From what I read, Alla is well within their rights on both. Not that it really matters - it's a website and Internet rules are vague.
#4 Aug 14 2006 at 8:47 AM Rating: Decent
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Do not think you can copyright 'Allakhazam' either. As it pertains to a website perhaps but if I made Allakhazam Cookies, I doubt I would get a copyright infringement beef unless I made them look like EQ characters.
#5 Aug 14 2006 at 3:40 PM Rating: Decent
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Do not think you can copyright 'Allakhazam' either. As it pertains to a website perhaps but if I made Allakhazam Cookies, I doubt I would get a copyright infringement beef unless I made them look like EQ characters


They own all as far as the Internet go's but you could use any or all on a store in real life np. It just keeps some one from using there name as part of there web site. If you started Allakhazam cookie store you would have no problems from this web site. I would think anyhows
#6 Aug 16 2006 at 9:13 AM Rating: Decent
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Netos, thank you very much for the links. could've done that myself, doh...

anyhow, I still don't understand why Alla has a right to trademark something common like "knowledge is power"... but, maybe Brudish is right, and it doesn't really mamtter...
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