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Topic: Can I be sued for cloning YouTube's style?

Anonymous a477f854d9a180864d392d5f8cee9410 started this discussion 3 months (2008-08-28 02:13:35 UTC) ago:

I'm going to write an open-source video sharing application. Will YouTube have grounds to sue me if I imitate their visual style?

Anonymous 1b193e3596ac16a5aa4f4e681445045c replied with this 3 months (2008-08-28 03:28:43 UTC) ago, 1 hour later (#55,084):

yes

Anonymous 10bc90e01b84ea8c3bd1b0d38c3a044b replied with this 3 months (2008-08-28 07:53:08 UTC) ago, 4 hours later (#55,116):

Yes they will. Why even ask.

Anonymous c3446935367e08fd7019ae3e39c8f018 replied with this 3 months (2008-08-28 11:22:53 UTC) ago, 3 hours later (#55,141):

Tons of sites already have. The real question is why you would want to imitate such a crappy, bloated piece of shit design.

Anonymous b0bf177f79327e685b879dd69c4b8a38 replied with this 3 months (2008-08-28 11:31:24 UTC) ago, 9 minutes later (#55,143):

Do you have any idea how easy it is to simply alter a few minor details to avoid things like this? Change a few colors, round or straighten some corners, and there you go. Brand new design. They can't sue you for having a flash-based media hosting website. They can only sue you for basically copying them exactly.

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