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by growse 4846 days ago
Last I checked, you can't copyright a collection of colours.
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I'd disagree. IANA(IP)L.

However in order to win an infringement claim you'd have to show that they constituted a substantial part of a work and that the colours were copied and not derived from a third party source or coincidentally the same. The usual civil law test is the balance of probabilities.

I think a more likely claim is that the matching colour scheme were a trademark infringement, an unlicensed use of trade dress (jurisdiction dependent of course). AFAIK DMCA takedown notices don't work for trademark infringement though?

Trademarks are not copyrights.