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Originally Posted by MikeB1972
That's why I called it "Trade Dress", not copyright.
TBH though, most book covers are similar enough that I don't think a lawyer would go near this one.
We don't seem to have protection from dodgy movies on SyFy/Horror Channel either :-
Snakes on a train (Possibly better than the original)
Transmorphers, Metal Man, Atlantic Rim, The Day the Earth Stopped.
The list is endless - Ok, I love dodgy creature features  |
Certainly the idea couldn't be copyrighted. I haven't read either but from the title I'm guessing it's the idea of an advanced (probably galactic) empire collapsing. Asimov had that idea in his Foundation books and he got it from reading "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" I believe. Not to mention other writers have written stuff using that idea.