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adjl posted...

That's certainly what it sounds like, though, if the colours in question are being replaced by black. There's potentially room to justify copyrighting a palette (though even that's a stretch), but by the sounds of things, every colour in that palette is just unavailable to use unless you pay for them.

only if the color is directly linked to a copyrighted color book (ACB file?). it's not that the color itself is owned, it's that the image is linking to an owned color source. (not unlike linking to a copyrighted font or something).

Jen0125 posted...

Are you just talking about color stories? Like for example in a season of fashion there may be a popular color story that designers are adhering to?

I also don't believe that should be able to be cppywritten, trademarked or restricted for use.

sort of. a color scheme. but not just a color scheme, but one that has been written into a copyrighted file by a particular company, complete with a license for use, very similar to font files. it's not just a singular color*, and you can use any particular color independent of the color scheme, but if an image is linking to a copyrighted color book file (.ACB I think) that you don't have the license for, you can't use the colors from that color book file.

(* I suppose the issue would still exist for copyrighted color book files that happen to contain only a single color, but you could (I think) still use that color independent of the file.)

(this is very similar to fonts where we take for granted that we are communicating using particular fonts, but that is only possible because they have been provided to us within the operating system or software (chrome, etc.). if you write software in a particular O/S you get to use the O/S fonts, but for example with game programming, you are actually working somewhat beneath/apart-from the O/S and cannot use O/S fonts, and have to obtain licenses for any fonts you want to use, (or use royalty-free fonts, or make your own fonts, etc.))