Legal Question in Intellectual Property in New York

I'm looking into building a website, and I'm trying to better understand what is covered by copyright. I've read things such as it doesn't cover idea's just property. So in a website does copyright only cover the code and images or does it cover the concept of what the website does? For example. Say I wanted to make a website extremely similar to Facebook.com. If I use their ideas of connecting friends, and having profiles, status updates, etc, but construct the website without copying any of their code or images, building all that on my own from scratch. Is that considered copyright infringement? If so how do companies compete with similar products?


Asked on 4/12/12, 12:24 am

1 Answer from Attorneys
Santosh Dash Legal Consultant

Pl understand- Code / image are Trade Marks (not copy right) and published informaitons are copy rights (publisher has the right to copy nobody else)

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Answered on 4/12/12, 1:04 am


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