MPL Copyright Notice

American Civics Research Library

Copyrighting your name

from Cracking the Code, 3rd ed.

The following information is provided for those who wish to copyright their own personal names to protect themselves from those who would use said name(s) for profit or gain without prior written consent by the owner.

Originally published by Better Books and Cassettes of America (BBCOA), the book Cracking the Code is now available from the authors at: www.jhdassociates.com and is highly recommended before you undertake asserting your rights and sovereignty with the Copyright Notice.

Statutory copyright law at the United States level does not allow for copyrighting private names, but a common law copyright may be obtained by following several easy steps. After all steps are complete, anyone who attempts to use your copyrighted trade-name for profit or gain (i.e.: police officer, judge, IRS, etc.) you will serve them with a Copyright Notice/Self Executing Security Agreement - which will be added to this site at a later date.

To copyright your name as a trade-name, use the following steps and form:

1. Copy the following legal notice and change the generic "John H. Doe" and all variations to your name. Letters are case sensitive, so if they appear ALL CAP, that is how your name should appear. If they are Upper/Lower case then make your name show accordingly.

2. CAREFULLY READ the entire text of the legal notice. This is your notice to the world of your status. You may copyright the names of family members with you as the owner. Minor children (under 18) can not legally contract, so they can not copyright their name. As a parent, you may copyright their name with you as the owner. When they turn 18 they may publish a legal notice themselves stating the fact that they are the new owner (you should publish notice relinquishing ownership)

3. Have the completed Legal Notice published in any newspaper of general circulation. Your local hometown or State newspaper will do. Publish it for at least 4 consecutive weeks as a "Legal Notice." When you place the ad, tell the newspaper you will need 3 notarized affidavits of publishing (normal procedure for newspapers) of the Legal Notice. After the 4 week period is up you will file one of the affadavits and a copy of the ad with your County Clerk, keep one in a safe place, and use the third for general reference.

LEGAL NOTICE

Copyright Notice: All rights reserved re common-law copyright of trade-name/trade-mark, JOHN HENRY DOE©-as well as any and all derivatives and variations in the spelling of said trade-name/trade-mark - Common Law Copyright © 1986 by John Henry Doe©. Said common-law trade-name/trade-mark, JOHN HENRY DOE©, may neither be used, nor reproduced, neither in whole nor in part, nor in any manner whatsoever, without the prior, express, written consent and acknowledgment of John Henry Doe© as signified by the red-ink signature of John Henry Doe©, hereinafter “Secured Party.” With the intent of being contractually bound, any juristic person, as well as the agent of said juristic person, consents and agrees by this Copyright Notice that neither said juristic person, nor the agent of said juristic person, shall display, nor otherwise use in any manner, the common-law trade-name/trade-mark JOHN HENRY DOE©, nor the common-law copyright described herein, nor any derivative of, nor any variation in the spelling of JOHN HENRY DOE© without the prior, express, written consent and acknowledgment of Secured Party, as signified by Secured Party’s signature in red ink. Secured Party neither grants, nor implies, nor otherwise gives consent for any unauthorized use of JOHN HENRY DOE©, and all such unauthorized use is strictly prohibited. Secured Party is not now, nor has Secured Party ever been, an accommodation party, nor a surety, for the purported debtor, i.e. “JOHN HENRY DOE,” in Hold Harmless and Indemnity Agreement No. DRD-041886-HHIA dated the Eighteenth Day of the Fourth Month in the Year of Our Lord One Thousand Nine Hundred Eighty-six. against any and all claims, legal actions, orders, warrants, judgments, demands, liabilities, losses, depositions, summonses, lawsuits, costs, fines, liens, levies, penalties, damages, interests, and expenses whatsoever, both absolute and contingent, as are due and as might become due, now existing and as might hereafter arise, and as might be suffered by, imposed on, and incurred by Debtor for any and every reason, purpose, and cause whatsoever. Self-executing Contract/Security Agreement in Event of Unauthorized Use: By this Copyright Notice, both the juristic person and the agent of said juristic person, hereinafter jointly and severally “User,” consent and agree that any use of JOHN HENRY DOE© other than authorized use as set forth above constitutes unauthorized use, counterfeiting, of Secured Party’s common-law copyrighted property, contractually binds User, renders this Copyright Notice a Security Agreement wherein User is debtor and John Henry Doe© is Secured Party, and signifies that User: (1) grants Secured Party a security interest in all of User’s assets, land, and personal property, and all of User’s interest in assets, land, and personal property, in the sum certain amount of $500,000.00 per each occurrence of use of the common-law-copyrighted trade-name/trade-mark JOHN HENRY DOE©, as well as for each and every occurrence of use of any and all derivatives of, and variations in the spelling of, JOHN HENRY DOE, plus costs, plus triple damages; (2) authenticates this Security Agreement wherein User is debtor and John Henry Doe© is Secured Party, and wherein User pledges all of User’s assets, land, consumer goods, farm products, inventory, equipment, money, investment property, commercial tort claims, letters of credit, letter-of-credit rights, chattel paper, instruments, deposit accounts, accounts, documents, and general intangibles, and all User’s interest in all such foregoing property, now owned and hereafter acquired, now existing and hereafter arising, and wherever located, as collateral for securing User’s contractual obligation in favor of Secured Party for User’s unauthorized use of Secured Party’s common-law-copyrighted property; (3) consents and agrees with Secured Party’s filing of a UCC Financing Statement in the UCC filing office, as well as in any county recorder’s office, wherein User is debtor and John Henry Doe© is Secured Party; (4) consents and agrees that said UCC Financing Statement described above in paragraph “(3)” is a continuing financing statement, and further consents and agrees with secured Party’s filing of any continuation statement necessary for maintaining Secured Party’s perfected security interest in all of User’s property and interest in property, pledged as collateral in this Security Agreement and described above in paragraph “(2)”, until User’s contractual obligation theretofore incurred has been fully satisfied; (5) consents and agrees with Secured Party’s filing of any UCC Financing Statement, as described above in paragraphs “(3)” and “(4),” as well as the filing of any Security Agreement, as described above in paragraph “(2),” in the UCC filing office, as well as in any county recorder’s office; (6) consents and agrees that any and all such filings described in paragraphs “(4)” and “(5)” above are not, and may not be considered, bogus, and that User will not claim that any such filing is bogus; (7) waives all defenses; and (8) appoints Secured Party as Authorized Representative for User, effective upon User’s default re User’s contractual obligations in favor of Secured Party as set forth below under “Payment Terms” and “Default Terms,” granting Secured Party full authorization and power for engaging in any and all actions on behalf of User including, but not limited by, authentication of a record on behalf of User, as Secured Party, in Secured Party’s sole discretion, deems appropriate, and User further consents and agrees that this appointment of Secured Party as Authorized Representative for User, effective upon User’s default is irrevocable and coupled with a security interest. User further consents and agrees with all of the following additional terms of Self-executing Contract/Security Agreement in Event of Unauthorized Use: Payment Terms: In accordance with fees for unauthorized use of JOHN HENRY DOE© as set forth above, User hereby consents and agrees that User shall pay Secured Party all unauthorized-use fees in full within ten (10) days of date Invoice is sent, User shall be deemed in default and: (a) all of User’s property and property pledged as collateral by User, as set forth in above in paragraph “(2),” immediately becomes, i.e. is, property of Secured Party; (b) Secured Party is appointed User’s Authorized Representative as set forth above in paragraph “(8)”; and (c) User consents and agrees that Secured Party may take possession of, as well as otherwise dispose of in any manner that Secured Party, in Secured Party’s sole discretion, deems appropriate, including, but not limited by, sale at auction, at any time following User’s default, and without further notice, any and all of User’s property and interest, described above in paragraph “(2),” formerly pledged as collateral by User, no property of Secured Party, in respect of this “Self-executing Contract/Security Agreement in Event of Unauthorized Use,” that Secured Party, again in Secured Party’s sole discretion, deems appropriate. Terms for Curing Default: Upon event of default, as set forth above under “Default Terms,” irrespective of any and all of User’s former property and interest in property, described above in paragraph “(2).” in the possession of, as well as disposed of by, Secured Party, as authorized above under “Default Terms,” User may cure User’s default only re the remainder of User’s said former property and interest property, formerly pledged as collateral that is neither in the possession of, nor otherwise disposed of by, Secured Party within twenty (20) days of date of User’s default only by payment in full. Terms of Strict Foreclosure: User’s non-payment in full of all unauthorized-use fees itemized in Invoice within said twenty- (20) day period for curing default as set forth above under “Terms for Curing Default” authorizes Secured Party’s immediate non-judicial strict collateral by User, now property of Secured Party, which is not in the possession of, nor otherwise disposed of by, Secured Party upon expiration of said twenty- (20) day default-curing period. Ownership subject to common-law copyright and UCC Financing and Security agreement filed with the UCC filing office. Record Owner: John Henry Doe©, Autograph Common Law Copyright © 1986. Unauthorized use of “John Henry Doe” incurs same unauthorized-use fees as those associated with JOHN HENRY DOE©, as set forth above in paragraph “(1)” under “Self-executing Contract/Security Agreement in Event of Unauthorized Use.”