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Post by Speede on Jan 21, 2013 21:14:04 GMT -4
So I'm watching RAW right now... guess what, Meltdown fans? They're having a PoS beat the clock challenge, TOO!
Dafuq?
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Post by Reaver on Jan 21, 2013 21:25:51 GMT -4
they heard we were doing it and decided to copy lol. hanx for ruining it for me....asshole  |
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Post by President Jeff on Jan 21, 2013 21:44:22 GMT -4
Don't you guys know. APW and WWE has a working relationship. They take our ideas and don't give us anything in return  |
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Post by Evan De Parker on Jan 22, 2013 0:13:31 GMT -4
Frauds. I say we sue their britches off.
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Post by Anthony Bailey on Jan 22, 2013 0:32:16 GMT -4
I think that there is some truth to WWE scouring the net for ideas though...
Sometime back in '98, when I first learned about e-fedding at the age of 12 and decided to give it a shot, I signed up with a fed called IWA (Forgot the acronym) as a character named Nick Funk (I was a moderate Flash Funk fan, sue me lol) and the place was pretty popular from what I recall.
One of the top guys in the fed started a very strange storyline where he would do segments, and even come to the ring, with a sock on his hand and he would have conversations with the sock and everything. Weird right?
I kid you not, only what seemed like a few weeks later Mankind and the whole Mr. Socko thing first surfaced on WWE Television. The guy was raging on the OOC boards about them stealing his idea lol. I thought it was silly at the time (I was only 12) but speculations about these types of things have gone on inside of my head for some years now.
Vince Russo probably got the nWo storyline from an e-fed lol.
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Post by Evan De Parker on Jan 22, 2013 0:37:36 GMT -4
Reminds me of the whole CM Punk scenario from the summer of 2011:
In an old fed I was in, before I had Evan Harrison walk out on the company-- because I had legit beef with the e-fed owners-- he sat down on the ramp and cut a shoot promo, mainly in-character, but running down the mainstays in the main event scene, all the "backstage figures" and basically broke the fourth wall, telling all of the fans that the ones cheering him were sheep and that it was going to be his last night in the company. It basically went word-for-word, play-by-play, the same exact way CM Punk's promo went down... Except my character didn't get his microphone turned off. ;D
About two months later, the CM Punk "Pipebomb" promo happens, and I nearly shit myself.
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Post by Anthony Bailey on Jan 22, 2013 0:43:58 GMT -4
Reminds me of the whole CM Punk scenario from the summer of 2011: In an old fed I was in, before I had Evan Harrison walk out on the company-- because I had legit beef with the e-fed owners-- he sat down on the ramp and cut a shoot promo, mainly in-character, but running down the mainstays in the main event scene, all the "backstage figures" and basically broke the fourth wall, telling all of the fans that the ones cheering him were sheep and that it was going to be his last night in the company. It basically went word-for-word, play-by-play, the same exact way CM Punk's promo went down... Except my character didn't get his microphone turned off. ;D About two months later, the CM Punk "Pipebomb" promo happens, and I nearly shit myself. That's no coincidence man. We should start copywriting our ideas. RP's can be considered intellectual property right? lol. |
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Post by Level-Two on Jan 22, 2013 1:22:32 GMT -4
I actually don't doubt writers working for the WWE (or TNA) scouring efeds for ideas. I'm sure 90% of the time it's just a coincidence but it's on RECORD they know we (efeds) exist as they've tried to shut them down in the past, so it's not out the realm of possibilities.
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Post by Michael Callahan on Jan 22, 2013 7:00:24 GMT -4
I debuted a character with a lawyer gimmick in ACW.
About a month later, David Otunga happened.
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Post by Anthony Bailey on Jan 22, 2013 8:02:25 GMT -4
I debuted a character with a lawyer gimmick in ACW. About a month later, David Otunga happened. David Otunga = The REAL Anthony Bailey according to you lol |
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Post by The Soul Of Philly on Jan 22, 2013 8:32:54 GMT -4
I'm pretty sure that as soon as you "publish" something on line, it's open to the public. Therefore a copy write would be null invoid. It may have changed but I dunno.
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Post by The Soul Of Philly on Jan 22, 2013 8:34:22 GMT -4
Would be hella worth it to try tho, copyright the rp, something happened like it, sue settle for a few thousand if you have a good lawyer. Settle for a big gulp and tickets to a house show if Callahan is your lawyer
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Post by Kevin Dahlia on Jan 22, 2013 10:03:05 GMT -4
I could be mistaken, but I believe that written material, willingly (or otherwise) placed onto proboards acts in a manner similar to photographs uploaded onto Facebook & Instagram. They become the the property of the website and website proprietors.
If anything, Proboards would be able to uphold some course of legal action, if they felt it was becoming significant enough. However, I would find it highly doubtful that they sue a multi-million dollar corporation, well known for their legal strengths.
Besides, all WWE would have to do is claim copyright on the images of WWE stars being used. I actually recall back in 06/07, a fed refused users the ability to use any star under (or previously under) WWE contract (unless the images were recent, and didn't belond to them. Eg. Kurt Angle was a no-go, unless all pictures used came from TNA, or other non-WWE sources). Something about them going around the web shutting down efeds.
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