how to change a copyright legally?

Question

can I take a product and improve it without infringing on the existing copyright?

Answer 1

for this you should contact the manufacture of that item some companies don't allow as i tired itbefore .. if you are concren about copy right as long as you copy something and not sell it u should be okay again it could matter regioanlly.

Answer 2

The US does not allow derivitive copyright. The most common example of this is arrangement of songs. The copyright office does not recognize the arrangement of other peoples work, the copyrights will remain with the original composer.

Your "improvement" is not an infringement per se, because the originator of the product has not been damaged. Patents can be issued for a novel use or adaptation of existing wares. If marketing your improvement requires use of the other products, then you may need to get a cross license agreement.

For example, you could design clothes that would fit a Barbie doll without permission from Mattel. You could design the cover art to be used with the printed version of a novel written by someone else. In either case you would be entitled to the copyright for your contribution, that is independent of copyrights that apply to the rest of the product.

Answer 3

I think you need to brush up on your intellecutual property law. Copyright only protects a product from being copied. It protects the expression of an idea, not the idea itself. If you take the idea and change it, you haven't infringed copyright. If the producted is protected by any other means ie a patent or as a registered design that could be different.

Answer 4

Once a product has a copyright there is nothing u can do. Before doing anything u better get legal advise not to end in trouble.

Answer 5

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