[Azselendor]

Originally posted by Atrocities:

I am sick and tired of copy cat SOB's and their attitudes. I have spend a long time coming up with good unique and orginal names, and when I use one of them, within a month I have two or more copy cats.

You and me both. It's funny I saw this thread because I was working on a cease-and-desist order the other day for copyright infringement on some of my written works! lol

TerranC is right, you would need to Trademark your name. Now this is a bit more expensive, but it gives you the right to put a little (TM) behind your name.

Patents is another item, but that applies to inventions so we can ignore that.

Finally, copyright is the cheapest, simplest way to get ownership on something.

If you take a collection or body of work and get it printed nicely, you can submit it to the copyright office and get a similar effect of a trademark so long as your own work is completely original and meets all the requirements.

Now, there is another way.

If you can establish your character was ripped off, contact the admins of a site and report the user to them. Do it polite and be civil about it and normally they will comply and remove the user
for posing.