Re: intellectual property violation (Disk Alert)

2011-05-27 Thread Lucas Bergman
Google isn't in the business of adjudicating intellectual property disputes. If a project otherwise complies with our acceptable use policy, we require some specific procedures to be initiated the alleged victim to take it down for copyright, trademark or other legal reasons:

Re: intellectual property violation (Disk Alert)

2011-05-27 Thread Chris DiBona
Also, please don't take this the wrong way, but you shouldn't expect us to weigh in on look and feel matters. Chris On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 6:37 AM, Lucas Bergman s...@google.com wrote: Google isn't in the business of adjudicating intellectual property disputes. If a project otherwise

Re: intellectual property violation (Disk Alert)

2011-05-27 Thread scanff
Was this removed? I'd have to agree with Chris. Using an idea or duplicating a look is not infringing on copyright unless you hold a patent, even then it's a sticky situation with look and feel. No offense but disk monitors have been around before. Of course It's a different story if the

Re: intellectual property violation (Disk Alert)

2011-05-27 Thread Chris DiBona
Google did not remove this project. The user may have decided to. Chris On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 10:02 AM, scanff sca...@yahoo.com wrote: Was this removed? I'd have to agree with Chris. Using an idea or duplicating a look is not infringing on copyright unless you hold a patent, even then