Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26992577-20151123191826/@comment-1757994-20151123215550

The Darkwolf wrote: I am nearly 100% certain that no actual copyright law was infringed here. You are better off just banning, him the makers of the show probably won't care about this. Just my 0.02$. Disclaimer: I haven't read whatever it is the subject admin wrote, but I am "nearly 100% certain" that I agree with The Darkwolf.

Trademark is essentially the recognized identity of a producer or manufacturer.

Lambda1 wrote: We have an admin ... who claimed to know a supernatural writer. But the admin didn't claim to be the writer. More importantly, the admin did not claim to be an executive or other legal representative of the studio that produces Supernatural, so there's no trademark infringement.

Copyright is essentially two things:
 * 1) The right to publish or reproduce a work
 * 2) The right to sell a work or a reproduction of a work

Unless the admin was copying and publishing videos or other material that contained material, in whole or in part, owned by the studio or network, independent of whether the admin made money or gave it away for free, there's no copyright infringement.

Basically this admin was just masquerading as someone who knew anything about anything, which isn't a crime, but it's at least annoying and probably worthy of a ban.Try to be more skeptical the next time someone makes unsupported claims about themselves.