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Not defending the youtube-dl take down, but you can write a story about a boy living under a closet with an abusing adopted family who finds out he is a wizard
by tomjen3 6y ago
Not defending the youtube-dl take down, but you can write a story about a boy living under a closet with an abusing adopted family who finds out he is a wizard and there is nothing anybody with the rights to Harry Potter can do about it. Copyright protects concrete versions, not abstract ideas (very much by design, and very much deliberate).
- slg 6y agoThat isn't true. Copyright does not just protect "concrete versions". For example, here is a famous court case[1] in which one of the criteria was whether a "ordinary reasonable person" would find there was substantial similarity between the two works. Some of the similarities can be as vague as "McDonald's character Mayor McCheese and Sid and Marty Krofft's character H.R. Pufnstuf both are fictional mayors that possess disproportionately large round heads." [1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sid_%26_Marty_Krofft_Television_Productions_Inc._v._McDonald%27s_Corp https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sid_%26_Marty_Krofft_Televisio....