how similar can the design of a site be to another site before it infringes on copyright? eg. if you look at facebooks layout, and were to copy the actual layout and design but used differenet colors and didn't have things that were website specific eg... ( facebook poking people) can you get done for copyright infringement? i.e. could i use everything in this page on my site if i changed the logos and text? thanks J

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Logos and text removed? Yes, that is alright. As long as you remove anything that adds a label to the site. The positioning of objects is not cause for infringement. But scrutinize the page and plan on getting to safe zone by shifting things about and adding more content.

Your safest bet would be to design your page *independently* of the third-party page. You can look at it, but not study its specifics.

If you have a diffrent script that you use compare to the original design that you want to copy, is not under Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 as long as you have a diffrent name of the website and does not pishing (imitate in overall design) any website. ^^