> The DMCA (and GDPR) do not have international reach. > The DMCA only appears to apply internationally because it binds a whole series of American companies wi

> The DMCA (and GDPR) do not have international reach. > The DMCA only appears to apply internationally because it binds a whole series of American companies with an international presence. And by the fact that DMCA Takedown Notice and processes are valid in many countries. You can send a valid takedown to a french company and they'll take the content down. Not because of DMCA law in the US or because of American companies, but because the notice is accepted and has legal value within the scope of the local law. > Their weights obviously aren't protected by trademark. So, what IP regime protects the weights? > No US court is going to invent new rights under US law because a company happens to be incorporated in a foreign jurisdiction. Your original question doesn't specify "in the US". A French company wouldn't be able to copy these without issues. Does that mean you need to be protected everywhere to be qualified as protected? Or simply in the US? If so, then you can use your own argument to say that a Chinese court (or Marshall Islands I guess?) won't create a law for a company incorporated in the US. Which in turn means that IP is not protecting anything since it doesn't apply to every single country on the world with no exceptions. And yet, IP does protect things. You can't both not scope your question and except a reponse scoped only to the US.