Reply To: Got Emailed by a Faux about Copyright Laws!

[JimC]

That is funny!

Incidentally, I just looked through the records at the USPTO’s website, and there are no, as in zero, registered Trade marks or Trade names for “Award Winning Photography”. Getting a trademark on your name is the first step to having any ability to protect it.

But even if they went that far, that doesn’t even stop you. Just look at the Apple/Amazon AppStore saga. Apple and all their well-paid lawyers couldn’t convince a judge that “app” and “appstore” were their own personal property, even though Apple had used it as a trademark. And then there’s the fact that common use phrases, such as “Award Winning” are not individually permitted to be copyrighted.

What a gem of a fauxtog you found 🙂