Re: [pygame] author & license of the pygame_logo (the snake) ?

[Luke Paireepinart <rabidpoobear@xxxxxxxxx>]

Shadd's comment is true for items made before current copyright law was written, that's why The Night of the Living Dead is public domain - they forgot to put the copyright notice on the released tapes, so those recordings of it are public domain now.  But yeah, now (in the U.S.) you are granted copyright over anything you create automatically.  I believe the 80's is the period where it changed.  Though you would need some sort of proof that you are the original creator if you want to take legal action.

Also there is a point where all things pass into public domain (eg. any book older than 70 years is also public domain now.)

On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 2:39 PM, Noah Kantrowitz <noah@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Not sure where you got that idea, but in every western legal system I know of the opposite is true. If no license is given, then there is none. Copyright is automatically granted (and applying a license doesn't alter copyright in general), and by default all rights are retained by the author. I very much doubt the author of this particular image would ever exercise their rights to sue, but it is worth mentioning since many people use stuff from Google images or whatnot in games.

--Noah

On Jan 24, 2010, at 9:07 AM, Shadd wrote:

When an item is distributed freely without any mention to licenses, it is considered of public domain, so you can use it as you please. That is, if really there is no copyright on it.

Where can i find the author & exact license of the pygame snake
graphic ? It's the logo on top of the www.pygame.org website and can be
downloaded at http://www.pygame.org/download.shtml but i see no license
information. I want to put the snake graphic as sprite in some python /
pygame tutorials.

greetings,
       -Horst