Originally Posted by Hellarion
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Carbonite is trademarked/copyrighted to Carbon Based Creations, LLC....which means that any use of this addon without their consent is piracy. Actually they wouldn't even have to copyright it..in 1989 measures were taken to protect things like this where lets say Tekkhub didn't copyright his addons...if someone were to re distribute his addons without his consent. While not copyrighted..he would still be protected.
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As soon as an authors original work is in viewable or tangible format, by law it automatically becomes copyrighted. However, in order to take someone to court for copyright infringement, the work must be registered with the U.S. Copyright Office Library of Congress.