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