4 replies to this topic

[Bioshox]

Heyy

I have a website and id like to patent/copyright it

Can you tell me which would be best to go for, so nobody can take my idea and re-make it?

[WingedPanther]

The first thing you'll have to do is look at the copyright/patent laws in your country. It is possible that you CANNOT patent code in the UK.

[Bioshox]

Okay,

And what about the IDEA overall, would that require a copyright?

[WingedPanther]

In general, you copyright actual code. Depending on local laws, you may be able to patent an original idea, but it won't make you popular in some circles :)

[Ancient Dragon]

In USA you can not copyright ideas. If it were possible then MS-Windows would never have been invented.

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Apple Computer, Inc. v. Microsoft Corporation, 35 F.3d 1435 (9th Cir. 1994) was a copyright infringement lawsuit in which Apple Computer, Inc. (now Apple Inc.) sought to prevent Microsoft Corporation and Hewlett-Packard from using visual graphical user interface (GUI) elements that were similar to those in Apple's Lisa and Macintosh operating systems. The court ruled that, "Apple cannot get patent-like protection for the idea of a graphical user interface, or the idea of a desktop metaphor [under copyright law]..."