I FOUND THIS INTERESTING PIECE ON STRAWMAN COPYRIGHT. THE MORE I STUDY AND RESEARCH ABOUT REDEMPTION THE MORE IT MAKES ME BELIEVE THAT ALL THIS COPYRIGHT AND STRAWMAN IS A BUNCH OF HOOEY.



LOGIC, REASON AND UNDERSTANDING WHAT THE LAW ACTUALLY SAYS IS PROBABLY WHERE I'LL FIND MOST OF MY ANSWERS.



HERE'S THE ARTICLE:



Strawman revisited, “I copyrighted my name”:



When the Strawman theologians could not prove their specious theory and the attempt to prove their U.C.C. process was less than successful or to enhance what little success they believed they might have, they decided that they could secure their beliefs by simply copyrighting their names. Then logically they could hold Corp. U.S. and the Corp. States accountable for copyright violation if their copyrighted name was misused, Right?



Wrong! Again, it is helpful to know the law. In fact, copyright law does not work that way. Even book publishers and Hollywood producers with “All Rights Reserved” in their copyrights cannot copyright the title to a book or a movie. Two of the movies I have on my shelf are both titled, “The Patriot”: one stars Stephen Segal where he is a modern doctor fighting to save the people from a deadly virus that was turned loose by a maniacal self proclaimed patriot; the other movie stars Mel Gibson, who plays the part of a Revolutionary War patriot fighting the British. Also, several of my books have the exact same title, with entirely different: authors, publishers and content; all copyrighted, with “All Rights Reserved”, and none of them having permission from the others to use the title (nor do they need such, copyright law does not protect titles).



Even without knowing the law this myth is debunked with simple logic:

Think about it; how many people are there in the world with the name, “John Smith”? If a person was to formally copyright their name, “John Smith”, would that mean that no other person that already had the same name, with that same spelling, could ever use their name again? Obviously not. It would have no effect on anyone that already had the name, whether that other person was a natural person or a business entity. So would that copyright keep any father out there of the name, “John Smith” from naming his newborn son, “John Smith”? No, it would not. So what effect would it have if a person was to copyright their name? It would have absolutely no effect at all (copyright law does not protect names or titles).



There is a real danger though in copyrighting ones name if a person then attempts to use that copyrighted name to secure any right, property or privilege from any other person (real or business entity). That danger is the charge of identity theft. We have already been appraised of governance entities prosecuting people for felony identity theft in relation to this very myth.



If you fell for it in the past, your simplest remedy might be to simply not attempt to enforce the alleged copyrighted name.