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The whole globe? No. But the berne convention does have 179 signatory countries. It's not just "western". https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berne_Convention http

• croes 4y ago
  "A copyright cannot cover ideas, procedures, or methods of operation. You can copyright your website’s design, but you can’t copyright the way you created the design." If you use the components to create a new design then there is no copyright.
  • aleksandrh 4y ago
    > If you use the components to create a new design then there is no copyright. This is false. You can't copy a site's code and just change the design and poof, no copyright infringement.
  • chunkyks 4y ago
    The code they created, to implement that component, is an original creative work. Thus protected under copyright.