Let’s just say that although I gave you the benefit of the doubt, I know your modus operandi, and may have “busted” you once or twice in the past with my accidental proofreading.
And you’re right, it’s irony you can’t make up.
]]>Ha, hilarious. A screw up of the most ironic kind, especially given the lawsuit itself pointed out how I occasionally type the wrong word, thus highlighting the fact I often write when tired or drunk and even after proofing miss the error. Thanks for the catch. Embarrassing, and let’s just tell people I did it intentionally.
]]>To win, it needs to be more than just similar looking. From a Wired article:
Architectural copyright is difficult because the buildings (or renderings) in question have to go through tests to determine substantial similarity. “There’s the ‘total look and feel’ test, where you have an ordinary person like a juror look at the two works side by side, and say, ‘do these things look substantially similar?’ “ says Jeffrey Reichard, who practices construction and copyright law in Greensboro, S.C. “The other is the abstraction, filtration, comparison test where you basically look at only the protectable elements of a design.” This results in what Reichard says is a thin copyright protection.
https://www.wired.com/2015/10/architectures-fine-line-stealing-inspiration/
While it may look similar to you, there seems to be additional burdens to prove in order to win. I’m not a lawyer (although I have played one on TV…no, really…I did). But, based on some simple online research, this case isn’t nearly as cut and dried as you seem to think.
]]>Also, is the real point financial compensation or to potentially slow down the work on Resorts World? We also have a shortage of qualified construction workers in town as it is…and Wynn is progressing with the new development across the street.
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