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I'm not 100% about this but I think that creating a lot of legal "noise" around your copyrights makes them stronger somehow. Like its easier to win a case around copyright if you consistently enforce your copyright than if you do absolutely nothing for a while then try to enforce it. It still comes down to corporate lawyers trying to justify their existence though.
That's about trademarks, not copyright. Trademarks work that way, kind of use it or lose it. If you don't care about it, neither does the government.
But copyright is kind of immutable. It's a right. If you make something, it's yours. It could become the most popular thing in the world, everybody's making memes out of your drawing, people are selling t-shirts with your drawing on it, there are airline companies branding themselves entirely around your drawing. One day, you can just decide that your buddy John Smith is specifically not allowed to use it anymore. You can file DMCA claims or whatever, and the best part is that you don't even have to give a reason. He'd be like, "this is bullshit, everybody's using it, why can't I?" and you can just say "because I said so" and that's a legally watertight argument.
Enforcement of it could get tricky, but the law would be 100% on your side.
Yup, I just like to make sure the difference is clear. Misconceptions about trademarks end up making people think all kinds of silly stuff about copyright law
I'm not 100% about this but I think that creating a lot of legal "noise" around your copyrights makes them stronger somehow. Like its easier to win a case around copyright if you consistently enforce your copyright than if you do absolutely nothing for a while then try to enforce it. It still comes down to corporate lawyers trying to justify their existence though.
That's about trademarks, not copyright. Trademarks work that way, kind of use it or lose it. If you don't care about it, neither does the government.
But copyright is kind of immutable. It's a right. If you make something, it's yours. It could become the most popular thing in the world, everybody's making memes out of your drawing, people are selling t-shirts with your drawing on it, there are airline companies branding themselves entirely around your drawing. One day, you can just decide that your buddy John Smith is specifically not allowed to use it anymore. You can file DMCA claims or whatever, and the best part is that you don't even have to give a reason. He'd be like, "this is bullshit, everybody's using it, why can't I?" and you can just say "because I said so" and that's a legally watertight argument.
Enforcement of it could get tricky, but the law would be 100% on your side.
and to be clear this situation is about Monster Energy's trademark on the word Monster
Yup, I just like to make sure the difference is clear. Misconceptions about trademarks end up making people think all kinds of silly stuff about copyright law