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Comment by ronsor

1 day ago

This strawman is so terrible it's hard to figure out where to start.

> we stole all the documents stored on Google's private servers and all their proprietary code, research, and everything they've built

This would mostly be covered by trade secret law—not copyright. In the interest of continuing, I will, however, pretend that none of that is considered trade secrets.

> used it to create a new company called Poogle that competes directly with them.

Yes, you can create stuff based on documentation. You can copy something one-for-one in functionality as long as the implementation is different.

> we claim the theft of their data is "fair use" because we changed the name of the company

Yes, avoiding trademark infringement is important.

> rewrote their code in another language.

This is probably fine as long as the new code isn't substantially similar (i.e., a mechanical translation of) the old code.

It's not clear what your opinion is on this topic. Do you even have one?