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DirectPixel · #41 03-16-2006, 02:51 PM

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Originally Posted by Tony G

You've stolen the idea though - and ideas can be copyrighted, so long as they can prove they came up with it before you.

Unfortunately, that is not true. Ideas can be patented, not copyrighted.

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Originally Posted by Injektilo

As i said on my 1st post, I was trying to build the same style from scratch... i wasn't attempting to make a similar one, but the same

Thats why i was asking if its illegal or not since everything in this template was done by me ...

If you're trying to build the same style from scratch, then it is a copyright violation.

It doesn't matter how you arrive at the final result. As long as your final result looks identical or is above all a derivative work of the original, you are violating copyright law.

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