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Re:Show HN: Lannister – open-source wealth manager app by toyg on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @02:12PM (#20167577)
This is simply not true, sadly. Copyright applies regardless of intentions or outcomes; it’s only in certain limited fields that some activities are somewhat exempted (i.e. backups). This is clearly not one of them.
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Re:Show HN: Lannister – open-source wealth manager app by chabes on Saturday June 15, 2019 @12:58PM (#20190857)
Was referring to this:

https://www.expertlaw.com/library/intellectual_property/fair...

“The less commercial the use, the smaller the portion used, the lesser the import of that portion of the work to the whole, and the lesser the effect on the market for or value of the work, the more likely it will be that fair use doctrine will apply.”

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Re:Show HN: Lannister – open-source wealth manager app by quickthrower2 on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @05:58PM (#20169758)
Can you copyright a person's surname (as it was used before GOT)?

Trademark is different.

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Re:Show HN: Lannister – open-source wealth manager app by toyg on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @06:07PM (#20169841)
That I agree. I was just correcting the view of the parent comment, which was wrong on its own.
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