RE: The Social Media Globalization: Facebook Now Copies Snapchat's Filters As Well!
Snapchat has shown no intention to sue them yet, so there must be a reason for that
My guess is there are a couple of reasons; first of all, the filter thingy where you put something over your face like a helmet or whatever, is a feature that first appeared (popularly) on iphones and is therefore not their invention.
Secondly the IP issues surrounding these features, must be murky at best. If the tech is already out there in some form and is widely used, then you can't protect it.
For instance the first camera phone made by Sharp; both cameras and phones were in widespread use and they put them together. Could they protect it as a unique patentable product?
They probably tried and failed, and that is with physical, tangible assets; when it comes to digital assets; oh boy, sharpen up those lawyers, coz they're the only ones who are gonna make money out of this!
Cg
Yes, that's really true. A lot of laws we have today are not applicable with issues of the present world anymore - especially in the tech world.
You're right, Snapchat didn't invent a lot of those features, so you're right maybe it's harder to protect them than we think.
We'll see how far this goes in the future, and how much the copying will continue ..
You hit the nail on the head, in one of my favourite books; Netocracy, they predicted back in 2000 that most of our laws would be rendered meaningless in the face of the new world dominated by the internet.
It is mad how Facebook are gaining this social monopoly, I wonder how long before they want to buy/copy Steemit!
Cg