Copyright Worries
By David Shayer
Intellectual Property,
December 2020
Apple doesn’t want to waste time and money fighting copyright infringement lawsuits over watch faces. Vintage faces were also designed before smartwatches existed, so licensing such faces for digital use means negotiating with a copyright owner that may not understand the issues involved in digital licenses. Worse, the App Store supports dozens of countries, and the copyright owner could be different in each country. It’s a legal nightmare.
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