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Originally Posted by OldPokey
Copyrights, patents, trade marks, etc. won't protect you directly. You have to be willing to spend $$$ and sue anybody who copies whatever it is you're trying to protect. If you don't back it up, the law assumes you have abandoned your rights and the invention/trademark/etc becomes part of the public domain.
Bottom line - unless you plan to make real money from your venture don't bother.
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Isn't the part where you get into trouble the point where you actually collect cash for the item that you've copied?
I.E.: If I decided to "market" a car that looked like a Benz, drove like a Benz and even sported the "star" of a Benz, I could do just that, but I'd get into deep water the minute I collected "one cent" on the sale of said vehicle?
Correct?