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Re:Otonomo, with nearly $55M in funding, is cloning our product by natureboy21 on Monday April 22, 2019 @01:44PM (#19720939)
If it wasn’t already, the docs and the code should be copyrighted. It costs nothing and should be relatively easy to litigate in the case of copy pastage lol
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Re:Otonomo, with nearly $55M in funding, is cloning our product by jimbokun on Monday April 22, 2019 @02:52PM (#19721668)
It IS copyrighted.

To lose copyright, the author has to explicitly volunteer to sell the rights or give them away. A work has copyright protections the moment it is created.

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Re:Otonomo, with nearly $55M in funding, is cloning our product by PeterCorless on Monday April 22, 2019 @05:49PM (#19723340)
Correct. Though they now need to register their copyrights (proving original art) in order to move to the lawsuit phase.
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