Is it considered copyright infringement if..?

Question

Ok say you see a cool website and you like a part of it, for example the menu. And you also would like to build a site , on a different theme, but you want to build a menu very similar to the one you've seen on that website, cause you liked it. But building it from scratch, not copying the HTML code from that site.
Is this considered stealing? Cause practically you only steal the idea. thanks

Answer 1

Maryam x is absolutely wrong!

One CAN copyright artwork. It is intellectual property, the same as a piece of written work, music, and dance choreography. In fact, the way the law works, the original art is automatically copyrighted at the moment of creation. No one can use the art without permission of the artist.

Her example of the Mona Lisa image only works because the artist, Da Vinci, has been dead about 400 years. If he had painted it, today, then anyone using the image could be sued for infringement.

I often advise people, on this forum, to beware of ANY advice they read, here. Even mine. Do your own research from as close to the source as you can find. In this case, the TRUE information is available from the US government copyright office. (copyright.gov)

Answer 2

I'd imagine that the idea for a "menu" probably originated with some poor, overworked Bell Labs employee, while they were ordering Chinese take-out, late one night, back in the sixties or so... Some specific functions for building css or java/javascript/php/ruby/smalltalk/etc/etc/etc menus probably originate with whoever wrote the language...

Stealing a menu might be theft but I'm not quite sure how... that's like stealing someone's "dir /w" command at a few levels. Are you just stealing the look? ...the color, border size, etc, etc? Is it complex enough that it's not simply a standard function of the language? Can you not just ask?

If you're stealing the menu outright... does it actually fit into your site?

Answer 3

The word "Captain Universe" is too short to be seen secure by technique of copyright. the problem you would run into is even if it is been registered as a hallmark. i'm highly certain that ask your self has trademarked names like Spiderman, Captain united statesa., Daredevil, and the different standard superheros they have. it isn't likely that Captain Universe will be trademarked in spite of the indisputable fact that. (i'm no longer really a comedian e book fan, merely entering into accordance to who's been made into videos). Copyrights exist even if registered or no longer. Trademark safe practices in easy words exists even if that's registered and nonetheless in use.

Answer 4

if you copy and paste some parts of a site that can be copyright infringement.

if you like some parts of a site and you create imagery that is your own, or if you include things that are are similar but you created them you should be OK.

Imagery, Art can be copyrighted... but there are many images in the public domain that anyone can use.

It is a good question and there are a number of good sites that can explain copyrights to you search "copyright info"

Answer 5

Must you copy exactly as it is? If I were you, I would make some changes or even improve on it.

Unless the graphic you are copying has a very significant value to the owner, such as company logo, a trademark design or part of the core content of his composition, you shouldn't face any legal problem doing it.

Answer 6

YOu can take it no problem.

The only things that are copywritten are words, phrases, etc.

You can't copyright art. That's why art can be duplicated.

If I could draw the Mona Lisa, and I drew it and sold it, they can't do anything to me.

It's the same thing.

It's an image.

Answer 7

Ideas cannot be copyrighted. So no, this is not copyright infringement.