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What is the name of your state? Michigan, USA

My question deals with website copyrights.

If a person or company develops a website providing specific functionality what is covered by copyright? The features it offers and ideas behind the website, or the code that it is built on. More specifically could someone reproduce the features offered on the site utilizing different technologies and it be considered an original work. So if 'Company A' built a website in PHP, could 'Company B' build one in ASP or .NET that offered the same features and have it not be a copyright infringement?

I assume it is only the source code that is copyrighted. If ideas and functionality could be copyrighted then Google could be sued by Yahoo as they both offer search engine functionality (or countless other examples of companies offering similar software/websites). But not being a lawyer I'm unsure how broad copyright laws go.
 



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