[Trigunflame]

US district and federal courts have ruled time and time again in cases concerning artistic expression and intellectual property that it is not the individual elements of a piece that is copyrightable, but the entirety of the work and the coming together of the pieces.

And you think any court would waste its time on upholding the copyright law of a vbulletin style?

That is laughable.

When you to take your logic of "What is this style if you want to get specific.. blue with transparent clouds and some line work" to its logical conclusion, you will realize that with a break-down definition like that, not a single digital work would be able to be copyrighted. This is certainly not the case.

No, I think the work would have to show a lot of creativity unqiue to the design; as I said earlier this particular design is not something "Unique"; ive seen many similiar type of site layouts.

Something unique to me.. would be like worldofwarcraft.com etc; something not like any other site layout you have seen.

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In any case, if he copied your layout pixel for pixel as erwin said I would consider that an infringement and breaking the law.

However if as I stated earlier he created his own work inspired from what hes seen ie. your style I dont believe there would be anything anyone could do about it; not they really could anyway...

ps. I do like the style however and am using it now on Vbulletin.org; am not punning your work.