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From: Mark <i@dontgetlotsofspamanymore.invalid>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject: Re: "Borrowing" code
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2012 09:32:13 +0000
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On Sun, 19 Feb 2012 19:46:12 -0800, Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net>
wrote:

>On Fri, 17 Feb 2012 23:27:26 -0800 (PST), Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com>
>wrote:
>
>[snip]
>
>>You could write a Harry Potter novel without seeing the original work, too. 
>>J.K. Rowling could then sue you, as her publishers have done, and you would 
>>lose. Are you cool with that?
>
>     She could sue, and you could win.  Copyright protects against
>copying.  Independently coming up with something is not a copyright
>violation.  Granted that, in this case, it would be difficult to show
>the independence, but in principle, it is possible.

It 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.
-- 
(\__/)  M.
(='.'=) If a man stands in a forest and no woman is around
(")_(") is he still wrong?