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LayerVault Sends DMCA Takedown Letter re Flat-UI

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Re: LayerVault Sends DMCA Takedown Letter re Flat-UI

#41

Whether this is true or false, I see this hurting LayerVault more than it's worth fighting. It will be interesting to see this play out.

It makes them look incompetent when it comes to internet law. Any one want to test their "unlimited storage" claim?

Re: LayerVault Sends DMCA Takedown Letter re Flat-UI

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I thought "look and feel" lawsuits over UI were settled long ago? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotus_Software#.22Look_and_feel...

From the DMCA takedown letter: > I am the exclusive rights holder for the artwork contained within Flat UI That's quite a difference to "look and feel". Right now, there is just not enough information to know what this is all about.

Not sure what "artwork" was copied if any.

If it was icons, I think a court said recently icons cannot be copyrighted?

Ah maybe it was thumbnails cannot be copyrighted.

Re: LayerVault Sends DMCA Takedown Letter re Flat-UI

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Can someone please summarize for those of us not plugged in to the web UI framework (or whatever this is) community? I'm seeing entities like "LayerVault" and "Flat UI" and products (?) named "trend" that I've never heard of. Is this an abuse of process I should actually care about or is it just a "who did what?" spit between estranged developers?

Additional to the notes of others, LayerVault have a HackerNews clone of their own called "Designer News".

http://news.layervault.com/

Re: LayerVault Sends DMCA Takedown Letter re Flat-UI

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I not see any resemblance between layervault project and Flat UI, colors are different, icons too... explain please guys what is the problem?

I checked the colors and they're different. They may look the same, also square/flat interface is part of Windows 8.

I'm pretty sure colors cannot be protected by copyright.

Re: LayerVault Sends DMCA Takedown Letter re Flat-UI

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The only thing that is not completely generic imo is the color scheme FlatUI picked, which is similar to the scheme on LayerVault. But it's not exactly the same (I checked, everything is quite close though). Don't think something like that warrants an action like this at all.
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