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Talk:Legal Issues? There's an app for that (view source)
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You seem to have neglected one key piece of information in this article: namely, you '''cannot copyright facts or names'''. The word "Thundershock" for example is not copyrighted and therefore nothing stops you using it in an app or website. If it were illegal to use names like this then ''billions'' of web pages would need to be taken offline right now! [[User:DisgruntledGoat|DisgruntledGoat]] 15:48, 14 July 2011 (UTC) | You seem to have neglected one key piece of information in this article: namely, you '''cannot copyright facts or names'''. The word "Thundershock" for example is not copyrighted and therefore nothing stops you using it in an app or website. If it were illegal to use names like this then ''billions'' of web pages would need to be taken offline right now! [[User:DisgruntledGoat|DisgruntledGoat]] 15:48, 14 July 2011 (UTC) | ||
:You can't copyright it, however you can most certainly trademark the name of a character. Every single Pokémon species name is a registered trademark of TPCi. [[User:Archaic|Archaic]] 08:03, 16 July 2011 (UTC) | :You can't copyright it, however you can most certainly trademark the name of a character. Every single Pokémon species name is a registered trademark of TPCi. [[User:Archaic|Archaic]] 08:03, 16 July 2011 (UTC) | ||
::But just using a trademark isn't against the law, unless you are trying to pass off as TPCi. This is where the app store apps ''do'' fall down, since as your article states app developers must agree otherwise. The other case is using a name for something you created - for example creating a new character and calling it "Pikachu." For a website none of this applies. [[User:DisgruntledGoat|DisgruntledGoat]] 11:25, 16 July 2011 (UTC) | |||
== Fair use. == | == Fair use. == | ||