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On 2/20/2012 2:45 AM, Lew wrote:
> Mark wrote:
>> It [copyright] doesn't just protect in copying actual works but also
>> ideas. There
>> was a case where a photographer took a similar photo to another and
>> lost the case.
>
> That's still protection of expression, not of ideas. It is the
> photographs that were similar enough to constitute violation, not the
> ideas.
>

yeah.

photographer A takes picture of brick wall;
photographer B rips off picture of brick wall.

vs, if photographer B took a similar picture of another brick wall.
"but, you see, these bricks are different..."

could be extended to pictures of concrete and metal panels and so on as 
well.

it makes sense to make things different enough that they can be more 
easily told apart (one picture of carved stone brick vs another of 
cinder-block, ...), or if they are of the same material, at least some 
sort of apparent visual difference.

or such...