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<blockquote data-quote="Dr. Harry" data-source="post: 1563214" data-attributes="member: 5468">While I'm sure that Dannyalcatraz can/will answer this more completely and precisely than I can, Your post explicitely invoked the problems that I think that your poet and James Heard's both had.&nbsp; Equal protection is not equal opportunity.&nbsp; IP that you create has the same legal protections that IP created by Disney or Hasbro has.&nbsp; Invoking those protections might well be more difficult if you cannot afford the initial financial costs to act in the same way that large corporations do, but in the eyes of the law, both forms of IP have the same rights, regardless of their source.&nbsp;&nbsp; The word &quot;monopoly&quot; is a highly charged word, loaded with such negative connotations that when it is not used properly it makes the argument appear to be demagogery.&nbsp; It may be difficult to break into book publishing, music, movies, TV, but it is certainly not a monopoly.&nbsp; &nbsp; It also occurs to me that it would be funny if the Parker Brothers subdivision of Hasbro attempted to copyright the word &quot;monopoly&quot;.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dr. Harry, post: 1563214, member: 5468"] While I'm sure that Dannyalcatraz can/will answer this more completely and precisely than I can, Your post explicitely invoked the problems that I think that your poet and James Heard's both had. Equal protection is not equal opportunity. IP that you create has the same legal protections that IP created by Disney or Hasbro has. Invoking those protections might well be more difficult if you cannot afford the initial financial costs to act in the same way that large corporations do, but in the eyes of the law, both forms of IP have the same rights, regardless of their source. The word "monopoly" is a highly charged word, loaded with such negative connotations that when it is not used properly it makes the argument appear to be demagogery. It may be difficult to break into book publishing, music, movies, TV, but it is certainly not a monopoly. It also occurs to me that it would be funny if the Parker Brothers subdivision of Hasbro attempted to copyright the word "monopoly". [/QUOTE]

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