Copyright law doesn’t protect ideas, which might explain why Instagram is happily giving Snapchat credit for coming up with Stories.
Copyright law doesn’t protect ideas, which might explain why Instagram is happily giving Snapchat credit for coming up with Stories.
In the social media space, drawing inspiration from other apps is par for the course. Twitter, which boasted a real-time feed for years, recently took a page from the Facebook playbook and introduced an algorithmic feed. Instagram and Facebook both use hashtags, which were first used by Twitter. Two years ago, Facebook tried to capitalize on the popularity of Snapchat by launching the Slingshot app—which was actually Facebook’s second attempt to shamelessly copy Snapchat.
