Comment by mynameisvlad
5 years ago
What is your exact definition of "design copyright"?
And keep in mind, repl.it explicitly does not have any patents (which would be the actual way for protecting an idea or design in the way you're thinking) for anything they have done.
I am not referencing a specific law. I am talking about intelectual property laws in general.
Surely people should be able to see how if you work at a company, and then release a product that copies what that other companies does, and you build something in such a way as it looks very similar to that other product, then there is a pretty big risk of running into intellectual property law or any number of legal issues.
This is a broad category of laws, where you could run into numerous issues. That should be pretty clear.
And I'm asking you to specify exactly which laws you think this runs afoul of. You can't just handwave "copyright laws" away.
Especially since there are no patents which protect the exact thing you're talking about. There is no such thing as "design copyright" other than actual, specific designs (fashion designs, specific graphics copy) that are copied. Ideas and software architectural designs are covered by patents. Something replit explicitly does not do.
> I'm asking you to specify exactly which laws
There are a whole lot of laws related to intellectual property, employment, and contracts. It is a very wide field.
When talking about this kind of stuff, most people have not memorized the exact line number, in the exact paragraph, of laws that cover all sorts of things.
We are talking about hundreds or thousands of pages of law here. There is a lot to cover.
But the point is that there are a lot of laws, related to all of that.
And it is should be pretty clear how there is a risk to run afoul of something having to do with intellectual property, contracts, or the like, if you do something similar to what this kid did.
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