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"is illegally cloning our product" isn't it for the court to establish?

• frosted-flakes 8y ago
  No. If I photocopy the Harry Potter books, change the name on the covers, and sell them as my own, that is obviously illegal. This is the same thing, and nobody needs to wait for the courts to say that it is illegal.
  • perfunctory 8y ago
    I am sorry. Maybe your Harry Potter example is "obvious", but the case in the blog post is not obvious to me at all. I don't see any verbatim copied documentation. "overall structure"? Hey, the overall structure of almost any api doc is pretty much the same. All I see is similar API, which is not copyrightable, and identical randomly generated identifiers - and it's not obvious to me that it constitutes copyright infringement. Let's not do witch-hunting.
  • hbglih 8y ago
    It's obviously not the same thing because the only parts that were verbatim copied are some property descriptions for the OAuth 2.0 protocol. Maybe 100 words or so. This whole thing was blown way out of proportion.