Justin Case Posted July 11, 2018 Share Posted July 11, 2018 Timelapses: How to shoot and post process Hyper zoomhttps://youtu.be/IB5yD8JRpWs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jools Elliott Posted July 11, 2018 Share Posted July 11, 2018 Careful. Hyperzoom has been trade marked: http://www.geofftompkinson.com/hyperzoom/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justin Case Posted July 12, 2018 Author Share Posted July 12, 2018 14 hours ago, Jools Elliott said: Careful. Hyperzoom has been trade marked: http://www.geofftompkinson.com/hyperzoom/ Interesting... Hyperzoom is a technique and a name used by a lot of people. Quite strange to see it trade marked. Could you explain how this works? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joseph Clemson Posted July 12, 2018 Share Posted July 12, 2018 The more commonly used term for this kind of footage seems to be hyper-lapse. Hyperzoom seems to be a refinement of this generic technique which Geoff Tompkison has trademarked. I haven't gone into it in detail and I'm not a lawyer, but I guess if we stick to hyperlapse there is less likely to be an issue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justin Case Posted July 12, 2018 Author Share Posted July 12, 2018 4 hours ago, Joseph Clemson said: The more commonly used term for this kind of footage seems to be hyper-lapse. Hyperzoom seems to be a refinement of this generic technique which Geoff Tompkison has trademarked. I haven't gone into it in detail and I'm not a lawyer, but I guess if we stick to hyperlapse there is less likely to be an issue. Thank you Joseph, for hyper lapse we generally mean a time lapse where the point of view is moving, either walking, or from a car, bus, boat, cable car and so on. In this case the POV is static, but the zoom is performed using different focal lens. We generally call it hyper zoom, or sometimes super zoom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndrewP Posted July 12, 2018 Share Posted July 12, 2018 Adding the letters 'TM' after a word doesn't seem to make the term legally protected. The word would need to be fully registered with the appropriate body and then the letter 'R' in a circle can be used. There would also be a legal difference to the terms 'hyperzoom', 'hyper-zoom' and 'hyper zoom'. More info here: https://www.lawtrades.com/blog/answers/intellectual-property-differences/# Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joseph Clemson Posted July 12, 2018 Share Posted July 12, 2018 18 minutes ago, AndrewP said: Adding the letters 'TM' after a word doesn't seem to make the term legally protected. The word would need to be fully registered with the appropriate body and then the letter 'R' in a circle can be used. There would also be a legal difference to the terms 'hyperzoom', 'hyper-zoom' and 'hyper zoom'. More info here: https://www.lawtrades.com/blog/answers/intellectual-property-differences/# I see the website and photographer concerned with Hyperzoom is UK based and the term has been properly registered as a trademark in the UK. After this little nugget of info, I am out of my depth as I have no idea how that affects generic usage of the term and/or usage in other parts of the world. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndrewP Posted July 12, 2018 Share Posted July 12, 2018 17 minutes ago, Joseph Clemson said: I am out of my depth I find that I can quickly get into territory that only lawyers can navigate! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndrewP Posted July 12, 2018 Share Posted July 12, 2018 You would think that if he's gone to the trouble of registering the name as a trademark then he'd also register the web addresses hyperzoom.co.uk and hyperzoom.com but both seem to be available. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justin Case Posted July 14, 2018 Author Share Posted July 14, 2018 On 7/12/2018 at 20:56, AndrewP said: Adding the letters 'TM' after a word doesn't seem to make the term legally protected. The word would need to be fully registered with the appropriate body and then the letter 'R' in a circle can be used. There would also be a legal difference to the terms 'hyperzoom', 'hyper-zoom' and 'hyper zoom'. More info here: https://www.lawtrades.com/blog/answers/intellectual-property-differences/# Thank you Andrew, very interesting link Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacecadet Posted July 16, 2018 Share Posted July 16, 2018 Rather unwisely he seems to have trademarked only the lower case single word, and he may know it, which is why he is using the meaningless (in the UK) term TM for the capitalised version, because if he used (R) he might be committing an offence. Even if the trademark is unchallengeable, you ought to be able to use the separate words as you'r not describing a trade or service . Unless you get a solicitor's letter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justin Case Posted July 17, 2018 Author Share Posted July 17, 2018 18 hours ago, spacecadet said: Rather unwisely he seems to have trademarked only the lower case single word, and he may know it, which is why he is using the meaningless (in the UK) term TM for the capitalised version, because if he used (R) he might be committing an offence. Even if the trademark is unchallengeable, you ought to be able to use the separate words as you'r not describing a trade or service . Unless you get a solicitor's letter. Thank you for the input Spacecadet, I am very confused: hyper zoom is a word we all use for a specific technique, I had no idea that somebody could copyright it. A bit like if someone copyrighted "landscape photography" and nobody could use it anymore! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacecadet Posted July 17, 2018 Share Posted July 17, 2018 "Trademark" rather than "copyright", but as I said, it may be challengeable, which might happen were he to try stopping anyone from using it as a generic term. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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