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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Debate & Discussion > Patent reform
 
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Cicero
Dec 17, 2003

Jumpjet, melta, jumpjet. Repeat for ten minutes or until victory is assured.

Kalman posted:

Except that copyright protection is far narrower than patent and has an independent invention defense. If someone does exactly what Apple does in their software but didn't actually copy it, just redid it from scratch with the end result as a target, they don't infringe copyright. And if they take Apples code as a starting point and rewrite it to be functionally equivalent but new code, they don't infringe.
I don't think that's necessarily true. AFAIK there have been a few legal kerfuffles lately in the gaming world where a company's clone hewed too closely to the original, even though nobody was asserting that code or art assets were directly stolen.

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