Protecting Your Intellectual Property

[Trougedoor122]

In the US you simply include court costs in the lawsuit. Then if you win they are legally bound to pay all court costs PLUS they've lost in court and have the public knowledge that they are plagiarizers.

But still is it worth it, you would need a decent lawyer (unless it was in small claims court) AND, what if you lose and they make you pay all court costs? then you have to pay a lot of money and you dont get your game.

[Agentarrow]

In the US, you pay very little if you lose.

[Trougedoor122]

In the US, you pay very little if you lose.

it can very how much you have to pay.

[jonas]

By saying intellectual property are you refering to Patents or copyright? Which are two totally different things. Patents would be your intellectual property. Copyright is automatic. When you make a program it is automatically copyrighted. The founder of the GNU foundation has a good talk about this I need to find and post. But he uses the example that if a guy is in a cave and makes a program and then comes out of the cave to discover someone else has made one exactly like it. Neither one is violating a copyright cause neither one of them copied each other. So your work is copyrighted no matter what.