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Originally posted by Verte
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Originally posted by Just-one
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Originally posted by Verte
You can copyright a script, but what you see is not a script, it's a couple of HTML tags rich in CSS
Under UK Copyright Law, any computer programming is automatically copyrighted to the author. This makes copying, modifying, and ofcourse, selling any computer prorgamming created by someone else without their prior permission.
So yes, I think they should contact me before stealing coding. ClubHabbo attempted stealing coding from us, and they learnt the hard way by having their homes shut down on every host they've tried hosting their script with all of my Javacript coding on. Why people don't just learn Javascript and take the time to do their own work instead of stealing others credit and taking coding claiming they made it is beyond me.
James Parmee Morris
HabboRemix.net Owner
While the code shown is all of the code for displaying things until the page is loaded, the thing of importance here is one tag- the first div. Ashlay is looking for a method to hide elements, and this is the important tag, the one that must enclose anything you want to hide. I imagine that that tag with all of its attributes will not suit what Ashlay is doing, whatever it is, but even in the event that this tag were copied verbatim, I would think that copying a single tag would be within fair use.
It wouldn't be within fair use, because it wouldn't even be under copyright. Tags are intrinsic to HTML, and researching other people's (copyrighted) code to learn what tag is suitable to use is perfectly fine. Small snippets of code would not make up a significant enough portion of the copyrighted work to actually be infringing of the copyright. You might want to contact the original author anyway (remember that they have no claim over tiny snippets), but in a case like this, I wouldn't, while in different circumstances I might.
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