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by ender7 5431 days ago
Very true! I was thinking of UI art assets. Aspects related to the layout or behavior of a UI (having a touchscreen interface, momentum scrolling, etc.) should be (IMO) neither patentable nor copyrightable.

When you get into issues of truly ripoff UI, trade dress [1] seems like the most natural solution to me. However, the legal standing of UI w/rt trade dress is still being determined.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_dress