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Copying a design is not illegal. Unless the design is patented (which it doesn't seem to be or the OP would likely have said so in the article), everyone is fre
by janoc 7y ago
Copying a design is not illegal. Unless the design is patented (which it doesn't seem to be or the OP would likely have said so in the article), everyone is free to copy any design they want.
That you wish something was true doesn't make it so, unfortunately.
What is not OK is copying the documentation verbatim, that is copyrighted. However, that is, frankly, the least of the problems (and easiest to rectify) when someone is taking your product idea wholesale.
- jerf 7y agoSo, I'm wrong about this act being illegal, because it's not illegal, except for the parts where it is illegal?
- cgy1 7y agoI see two issued US patents for smartcar: https://patents.google.com/patent/US9870656B2/ https://patents.google.com/patent/US9870656B2/ https://patents.google.com/patent/US10169825B2/ https://patents.google.com/patent/US10169825B2/
- bdowling 7y agoThose patents are directed towards "method[s] for processing requests for vehicular data", which at first glance appear unrelated to the descriptions of web APIs authenticated by OAuth that Smartcar is complaining about.
- kraigie 7y ago>everyone is free to copy any design they want Copying text or pictures would be copyright infringement.