What can threaten for copying someone else's design with some changes + code (jquery, html, css)?

Question

Copywriting

Increasingly, in the freelance space, orders are being created to copy one or another design and code with changes. But there is an article, they say on the Internet that it is abstract and it is enough to make small changes to the design so that it is different. I want to figure out what everyone is like for this, I understand that if you steal an average design, then no one will take a steam bath, but what if, for example, you take and copy from a reputable studio whose website, for example, is expensive (although there is no difference here, article after all, as they said, abstract). In general, the design is somehow protected? Although I agree, because in the world there can be nothing alike, and sometimes they do similar things without even suspecting. And if it is punished, then how much can an individual fly into? I immediately remembered the story about the use of the Russian Railways logo. Sorry for the confusion, but I'm still waiting for an answer.

Answer 1

Stones will be beaten in the square

Answer 2

It depends on whom to copy and how to change. I copied VK from FB - he didn’t have anything for it.

Answer 3

And how will you feel yourself copying someone else's design? Not using a ready-made paid or free theme according to the license, namely intentionally illegal copying. I would simply refuse to work with such clients.

Answer 4

Можно хоть как цитировать УК, КОАП, ГК, надо понимать одно, что как истец так и ответчик живые люди которые в свою очередь предпримут любые попытки обвинять или оправдаться, и если истец (потерпевшая сторона) будет пытаться доказать нарушение своих прав, то сторона ответчика обладает большими преимуществами "достаточно вспомнить о презумпции невиновности" обвиняемый не виновен, пока не доказано обратное, а при надлежащей защите всю это ЧУШЬ разнесут на стадии расследования тем более, если обвинение будет строиться на уголовной ответственности (Сразу вспомнилось история про использования логотипа ржд) если вы имеете ввиду недавний иск РЖД к APPLE, когда арбитражный суд отклонил иск РЖД, то здесь нечего удивительного у РЖД зубы не доросли.
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