Facebook Sues German Company, Claims Ripoff

azuredrake writes "Facebook, the largest social networking site in the US, has sued German social networking site studiVZ on the grounds that studiVZ has copied the look and feel of Facebook in order to piggyback off their success. According to the article, 'The German company sued by Facebook for running a "knockoff" of the social networking Web site said on Sunday it asked a German court to declare that Facebook's claims are without merit.' However, a simple glance at the two sites' homepages seems to tell a different story — studiVZ copies many things from Facebook, from their button layout down to the font they're using."

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Re:Same != similar == no case?

[phayes]

Apple never sued Microsoft for look & feel (as microsoft got a licence from apple as part of the price of developping word & excel for the mac). Apple sued Digital Research Inc & thereby incurred Stallman's long lasting ire...

Interestingly, DRI's page on wikipedia makes no mention of this lawsuit but the page on Apple's litigation does .