Thread:Passionate Seddier45/@comment-3180503-20140628013524/@comment-24341760-20140715013932

You can't really copyright an idea. If they took the name icarly, that's one thing. But you can't say you're the ONLY person to ever come up with a space-themed episode, ever again, henceforth. Of course, if you start stealing dialogue, it's possible the individual episodes are copyrighted, they certainly can't be reproduced without permission. So Dan would have a case there. But stealing ideas is a weaker case in terms of what you can protect. I suppose you could make a case for plagiarism, but even that usually involves word-for-word copying.