Question

Suppose company A wants to develop a program that duplicates the functionality of a programm by company B. Describe how company A may do this without violating the copyrights held by company B.

Answer 1

The design of the software is covered by copy right unless it is open sourced or is a very common interface. They would need to come up with their own design and way of solving the problem to have a solution that was not copyrighted.