Slacker News Slacker News logo featuring a lazy sloth with a folded newspaper hat
  • top
  • new
  • show
  • ask
  • jobs
Library
← Back to context

Comment by NitpickLawyer

16 hours ago

> lifting ideas from other engines and copy-washing them.

You cannot copyright ideas. And that's a good thing. Remember the "one click checkout patent" saga? That is bad for everyone involved. We don't want that, as an industry.

1 comment

NitpickLawyer

Reply

dgellow  15 hours ago

You’re mixing patent and copyright. You can patent an innovative algorithm in the US. And the implementation is of course protected by copyright

Slacker News

Product

  • API Reference
  • Hacker News RSS
  • Source on GitHub

Community

  • Support Ukraine
  • Equal Justice Initiative
  • GiveWell Charities