Re:Peter Sunde: 'I went to jail for my cause. What did you do?'
by gedrap on Thursday December 11, 2014 @09:15AM
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Well, yes, but you can't download clothes using torrents ;)
Similar idea would be that ideas of movies and video games should not be copyrighted. IANAL, but there are many many similar movies and video games and don't think there are any copyright infringements unless you create a video game with almost identical name, etc.
Re:Peter Sunde: 'I went to jail for my cause. What did you do?'
by pbhjpbhj on Thursday December 11, 2014 @10:47AM
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>there are many many similar movies and video games and don't think there are any copyright infringements //
That's because they're copying the ideas and not the implementation, copyright protects implementations ("works") and not the ideas behind them (at least that's the intention).
Similar names would be trademark law rather than copyright FWIW.
I wonder if it's not more like "designer cloths shouldn't be copyrighted" - which is actually true in the fashion world. And because of that tens if not hundreds of millions of people can get "cheap cloths" that look good.