[FooBarWidget]

You can lose your rights if you don't protect them. Given this, businesses pretty much have to protect their work, or they'll run into bigger problems later.

[ahupp]

That only applies to trademark, not copyright.

[mortenjorck]

If you'll indulge a little contextual Show HN, I made a single-page site that lays out the differences between the three major IP law domains: http://iplaws.info

[Smudge]

Sorry, but your site uses a gears icon: http://iplaws.info/img/mechanical.png

Clearly this infringes on LayerVault's copyright.