On Fri, 18 Jul 2025 at 10:17, Florian Weimer <fweimer@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
* Simo Sorce:
> Well given that copyright protects actual works and not their style or
> the ideas behind them I am really hard pressed to consider the risk
> high enough to be that concerned.
People say that ideas aren't covered, but at the same time, literary
characters and plots are clearly protected under copyright law.
Going from 30 years of dealing with various copyright issues in many different fields.. There is nothing ever 'clear' or 'easily interpreted' about Copyright law without guidance from a lawyer who is well versed in those fields. I have read about too many cases where characters/plots may be covered under copyright law in one case and not in another. Most of the time it comes down to minute differences which make no sense as a laymen but seem important to lawyers.
I do believe that we need to have policies to cover this, but I also believe that we need actual grounded advice from lawyers who actually understand what the current courts in different countries say. Anything else is just going to rile everyone up on points that they fundamentally don't agree with each other on.
Stephen Smoogen, Red Hat Automotive
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