7Apr/12Off
Forget Hollywood — U.S. startups are in dire need of copyright protection
...And I’m not just talking about taking an idea and tweaking it; this is about copying a site’s entire design, layout, and logo almost pixel for pixel and coming up with some uninspired derivative name (e.g., “Pinspire” instead of Pinterest, “Zolando” instead of Zappos) that reeks of being a cheap knock-off. ...
Two potential solutions that give greater IP protection to U.S. startups would help improve the current clone problem:
International harmonization for enforcement against “close copies”
Lead time protection for entering new markets
This is a guest post written by Wei Lien Dang, who is currently a JD/MBA student at Harvard University. He studies entrepreneurship, venture capital, and emerging issues in Internet law.
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