How to protect game ideas from being copied (facebook,iphone,android)?

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There really is no way to prevent it copycatting. If you'll look, many songs, stories, games and other forms of entertainment have similar, if not identical styling or ideas. My advice, as a consumer, is to create a Facebook game as well being that many phones (such as my own) aren't being allowed to play many new games. This is what causes the copycatting or cloning. Take The Mortal Instruments game - it's not going to be on Facebook (I've already contacted the developers) and it is only available on newer devices. So, I get to miss out. Given that many apps and games on devices link to Facebook, it's a feasible and very reasonable option and shouldn't "cut back" on the mobile device gaming and downloads.