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20 hours ago, Exhumed said:

Copyright protection arises automatically upon creation of the work. This copyright lasts for a maximum of 70 years. This is inherent to the nature of the work, whether it be an oil painting, an embroidery, or a digital design.

Oh my. Puleeeze. I am not a lawyer. Just goole it.

Not just calling you out Exhumed. 

Yes. If it can be, and you actually copyright it. Go spend the money and try. At the very least; make a copy and send it to yourself via registered mail. Then hope for the best. Without spending cash, that is the best you get. 

With all respect. If you guys are so worried about your IP, find a different and more secure platform. Jeeeeeeze.

These panels (files) are presented and posted as open source. Were is your protection within?

"Canada has a specific exception for non-commercial user-generated content, section 29.21 of the Copyright Act.

It says that an individual can use an existing work that has been made available to the public to create a new work, and can authorize an intermediary to disseminate the new work, provided several conditions are met.

The conditions include:

  1. The new work is used solely for non-commercial purposes.
  2. The source/author is identified where reasonable.
  3. The person had reasonable grounds to believe the original work wasn't infringing copyright.
  4. The new work doesn't have a substantial adverse effect on the original work's exploitation or potential market and isn't a substitute for it."

 

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If my post is considered irrelevant or harassment, please feel free to remove it.

Sharing a quick fact on copyright: 

Copyright protection is automatic when a work is created; there's no need to spend money or mail yourself a copy. Registration can help enforcement, but it isn’t required. Sharing something for free doesn’t make it “open source” or give others the right to repost; the work remains copyrighted. Even on forums or other media, creators are entitled to enforce that.

In some cases, other forum and media admins have removed reposts of other people’s work, whether originally shared for free or sold, out of respect for copyright.

The law does allow individuals to create and share derivative works under certain conditions, but that doesn’t override automatic copyright, nor does it permit reposting without consent. It’s not a blanket permission to repost or redistribute someone else’s files.

Copyright law applies regardless of platform; posting on a forum or other media doesn’t strip rights. The only difference is enforcement: on a public forum, it’s harder to control redistribution, but copyright still exists.

This matters here as well because sensor panel designs are creative works, and copyright applies to them as well, specifically to works created from scratch, not to material directly reused from external sources.

Just sharing what I learned; no further discussion.

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