SFGOON wrote:I'm sitting next to this scanner at my Univeristy, I have my comp-gen picks in my pocket, would putting them up violate any copyrights? I'm scared of those burly majestic lawyers.
What Majestic lawyers?
I still haven't even found a patent on the Comp-u-picks, let alone Majestic's high tech set.
Take a good, long hard look at all the lock picks you have, and all the pictures you can find. You will come to a startling conclusion. Most of them are pretty much the same things.
The majority of lock picking impliments have no patent protection, nor do they have any copyright protection. It's like trying to copyright a screwdriver.
Technically they have copyright protection simply because they were produced. Any object has rudimentry copyright that remains with the original artist, designer or whatever or the group or company that asked for them to be made. The problem is trying to enforce it.
You can scare some people, but the fact remains that almost all these things are duplicates of previous works.
Romstar