I recently started with www.marathivinod.in ,local regional jokes site,Please guide me if any copyright violation is there?
Jokes can be copyrighted, such as, if you heard them from a comedian or comedy writer on a show, movie, comedy album or on TV...or even written in a blog or elsewhere online. It's content just like any other.
Just because it's not credited, doesn't meant that your source is not in violation. You have to use common sense. Obviously there are everyday jokes told by people everyday that no one knows where they come from. Most are the same joke just told different ways. I wouldn't worry about copyright for something found on the bathroom wall. Just use common sense.
I won't bother reading the site but in general if you post the source of the joke aka credit the creator then you will shut any legal blabber mouth . And if you keep a low profile no one will want to come after you .
Mostly local/regional jokes are not copyright protected. However if you are copying and pasting it from other websites, you must be aware of the factor that Google never likes duplicate contents!...
Giving credit is not an excuse, or defense, to a copyright infringement claim. Ironically, all you're doing is proving intentional infringement. The assertion that "local/regional jokes are not copyright protected" is completely false.
Ok, so now I am confused. Let's see. I publish a knock knock joke on my website. Who should I give credit/ask permission to? I hear a great comediant telling a joke. But how can i be assured that he haven't heard it from anyone else? Does he has proofs of when he wrote that and that not a single person in the whole world had written/told it before?
The same jokes come up over and over and over again, Google must be sick of them. I have a jokes collection myself, people send me new ones too. I rarely see a new one I haven't heard when I was a kid. Yahoo has a huge jokes archive, with some pretty serious replication in it. You'd probably be fine with those ultra-common ones, unless you've obviously copied someone else's archive word for word, or a book word for word, or a stand-up comedian's act. This thread is making me worried ... I was going to put some nursery rhymes on my site, those are something else that is ultra-common and replicated everywhere ...
Any copy that is created is automatically copyrighted. There is no need to state this is the case and a failure to give credit/ copyright holders name does not mean it is free from copyright. The only way to know something is copyright free is because it explicitly states that it is. Copyright lasts for 70 years after the death of the author/ creator so doesn't expire any time soon. Now back to reality. If you put a "why did the chicken cross the road?" joke, is it likely that someone will come forward and sue you for breaching their IP rights? Is this a risk that you are willing to run?