howto:copyright

I created howto:copyright since I got so tired of seeing things like lawson or coca-cola tagtyped as copyrights, changing them to general, then seeing them back as copyrights soon after. I think I did well on summarizing our policy, but let me know if you guys think any of it should be changed.

We've actually never fully reversed the decision that set coke to a copytag, it was barely revisited.

I don't see why Coca-cola should be a copyright if Pocky and Caloriemate aren't.

They all were at some point.

This seems pretty clear-cut to me, objects can't be copyrights. So a Coke can or a Pocky stick can't be a copyright anymore than a bed or a computer or a dildo could. I'm pretty sure people were just thinking "Coke is copyrighted so it should be a copyright tag".

Yeah, they are absolutely not copyright tags.

regarding lawson, maybe it was me at least once that set it to copyright, though i can't really remember exactly. i probably did it when 7-eleven, circle k sunkus, family mart are all set to copyright. so i would assume it shouldn't be the case.

how about greek mythology and the likes? they're not exactly copyrighted but satisfies "Are there characters within this?"

jjj14 said:
This seems pretty clear-cut to me, objects can't be copyrights. So a Coke can or a Pocky stick can't be a copyright anymore than a bed or a computer or a dildo could.

To correct you, not the coke bottle is the copyright, the company which made the coke bottle (actually, the one which owns the brand) is. Objects alone can warrant a copyright tag on the image (post #932022), so I wouldn't use that argument.

The current system is not perfect, since I would want the mcdonald's tag to be a general tag for post #977735, but a copyright tag for post #816610.

The old discussion about this: forum #19664

There was a revised discussion more recently in forum #40192

Ehh I'm fine with it either way (more or less inclusive copy definition) as long as it's consistent. I think the wiki write-up looks pretty good, but I do think we get muddled on brands, when some end up getting copyright tags (mc d's) and some don't. A new user would not be able to tell which should or should not be copy, at least not easily.