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Dnforum Copyrightable?

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tristanperry

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I'm not an expert here, although I'd imagine that copying the structure of the fourm is against copyright.

This is because the structure makes up part of the content of a forum. Content is copyrightable. Hence copying the structure means copying the content (and so breaching the copyright).
 

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Yes, but the forum categories and subcategories and their particular order flow, that is what I am trying to ascertain whether they can be effectively copyrighted
 

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If you want a straight legal answer, get a lawyer.
 

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Perfectly legit as long as Colour schemes , look and feel and direct cloning is not done...

There are many forums like DNFORUM.com - for instance namepros which has a very similiar structure...
 
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