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View submission: [Recap] The great xkcd mod-sidebar blowup
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Comment by [deleted] at 12/02/2014 at 07:39 UTC*
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Comment by ANewMachine615 at 12/02/2014 at 13:58 UTC
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Copyright's all well and good for companies, but nothing like that exists in terms of personal handles/such.
You mean trademark, and trademark certainly *can* be used to defend a personal handle if that handle functions as a source identifier of a product. I'd argue that XKCD functions like that.
I guess in terms of copyright it'd be the confidence engendered by governent backing? Once it's copyrighted it's copyrighted for good? Registering usernames with the government's not gonna make people happy though.
Again, you mean trademark. Copyright has a (theoretically) limited term, and does not apply to mere brand identifiers.