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how could facebook be created if sites like myspace already had already been created? - Brandon C - 12-09-2012 10:23 PM
How was creating facebook not like stealing the idea of a social network from a site like myspace. Like how could facebook have been created without "copying" ideas from myspace?
- Deus ex machina - 12-09-2012 10:31 PM
Because you can't copyright an idea. So you can't copyright the idea of a social network, only functions unique to a specific site.
From the US copyright office: "Copyright does not protect facts, ideas, systems, or methods of operation, although it may protect the way these things are expressed".