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[edit] How to use a Bullworker

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Please provide elaboration on the claim of public domain? Geoff Plourde (talk) 18:44, 3 August 2009 (UTC)

It is ineligible.--Launchballer (talk) 18:45, 3 August 2009 (UTC)

On page 1 of the manual you uploaded there is a copyright 1980 statement. How is it ineligible? Geoff Plourde (talk) 19:03, 3 August 2009 (UTC)

Where?--Launchballer (talk) 08:24, 4 August 2009 (UTC)

Here Geoff Plourde (talk) 18:46, 4 August 2009 (UTC)

That copyright is for the product itself, not the instruction manual.--Launchballer (talk) 05:51, 5 August 2009 (UTC)

Copyright is only applicable to works, like books. The Bullworker itself would be under patent. I am inclined to believe that the manual is copyright because it has a copyright statement, was created within the last 70 years, and all material is automatically copyrighted when created in the US. Geoff Plourde (talk) 16:05, 5 August 2009 (UTC)

You've got the wrong end of the stick. The manual may have a copyright statement, but that is for the bullworker. Quote.--Launchballer (talk) 18:50, 5 August 2009 (UTC)

Why would the copyright statement for a book be in a manual? Geoff Plourde (talk) 19:53, 7 August 2009 (UTC)

Because the book is the manual.--Launchballer (talk) 21:44, 7 August 2009 (UTC)

Then the manual is copyrighted. Geoff Plourde (talk) 01:25, 8 August 2009 (UTC)

Sorry, I've made a mistake, which I've corrected. The Bullworker's copyright is in the manual, but the manual does not specify a copyright for itself.--Launchballer (talk) 08:35, 8 August 2009 (UTC)

As I explained before, you cannot copyright a invention, only a book. The copyright cannot apply to the Bullworker. Geoff Plourde (talk) 03:35, 9 August 2009 (UTC)

That's foolish. Suppose I decided to erect a similar thing to a Bullworker, put it on the market, got sued for copyright. Gfb would not be able to sue me if the bullworker was not under copyright.--Launchballer (talk) 09:55, 9 August 2009 (UTC)

The Bullworker is protected under patent and trademark protections. Copyright is a separate category of intellectual property reserved for written, audio, or visual works, i.e. a manual. Geoff Plourde (talk) 15:44, 10 August 2009 (UTC)

Why? Did someone have disambiguation, pedanticy and the want to make people's lives Hell by making things preposterously perplexing?--Launchballer (talk) 21:00, 10 August 2009 (UTC)

That is the way I.P. laws are written. If you don't like it, give your M.C./M.P. a ring and start petitioning to unify the laws. Geoff Plourde (talk) 21:37, 10 August 2009 (UTC)

What on earth is an IP law?--Launchballer (talk) 13:13, 11 August 2009 (UTC)

Intellectual Property law Geoff Plourde (talk) 19:24, 14 August 2009 (UTC)

Care to elaborate on how housing relates to copyright?--Launchballer (talk) 07:58, 15 August 2009 (UTC)

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