Reproduce software product avoiding copyright infringement - is it possible?
I got a pretty handy utility installed on my PC which I use constantly during my daily activities. It's an abandonware (latest version has been released in 1999) but the software company that produced it back then is still in this business.
I wonder whether it's possible to reproduce it for commercial purposes without breaking the copyright. By "reproduce" I mean writing my own code from scratch so that the final product of mine could have the same features as the original program (plus some extras) without any reverse-engineering or something like that (i KNOW how it works and understand how to implement it in code).
I checked the US copyright laws but still cannot figure out if there's any differenct between copyright infringement and competing product with some extra features added. If it's possible to avoid infringement, please tell me what's the necessary level of changes to be applied.
Thanks!
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