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Re:AMA: Ivan Kutskir, creator of Photopea by wideareanetwork on Sunday April 11, 2021 @05:20AM (#26768836)
Copying look and feel of software was fought out in the courts by Apple and Microsoft a very long time ago. It’s allowed.
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Re:AMA: Ivan Kutskir, creator of Photopea by Ciantic on Sunday April 11, 2021 @05:23AM (#26768850)
How about in Czech Republic, or EU courts? There is always a way for big companies to fight small ones.

Of course one way to defend that would be to have the company be US based or with founding US partners.

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Re:AMA: Ivan Kutskir, creator of Photopea by tgsovlerkhgsel on Sunday April 11, 2021 @08:12AM (#26769760)
They could try to bog down photopea in permanent lawsuits, but that would risk some EFF-style organization taking the other side, and now they're fighting an equal opponent, earning a lot of bad PR, and most importantly, they're providing a lot of cheap advertising for the competing product while also making themselves unpopular.
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Re:AMA: Ivan Kutskir, creator of Photopea by rijoja on Sunday April 11, 2021 @05:49AM (#26768996)
Usually by buying them. If not that by hiring 10x the amounts of the coders and copy whatever that did and then launch a massive PR campaign.
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