Q: Does it violate the copyright if I sell my own solution in an ecommerce platform? The Unofficial title is on the cover
A:
If you see somebody launch an e-commerce service, and you say, hey, that's a great idea, I'll think that I'll launch a competing e-commerce, then you are correct to worry about intellectual property.
If you write a code that solves a technical problem in a different way, and the interface is not similar then there likely won't be problems with copyrights. If it solves it in a sufficiently different way, then there should not be a problem with patents either. And if you won't refer to the other e-commerce service, then it is likely that you won't violate trademark laws either.
However, if you take a program that is running on a mainframe or a PC, and you want to have the end-user run that program on a different platform, such as a smartphone, then you may have some legal difficulties.
In any case, you should hire an IP patent attorney to help you.
Will Blackton agrees with this answer
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