I’m Marco Arment: a programmer, writer, podcaster, geek, and coffee enthusiast. February 22, 2018 ∞https://marco.org/2018/02/22/your-app-was-copied App developers sometimes ask me what they should do when their features, designs, or entire apps are copied by competitors. Legally, there’s not a lot you can do about it: Copyright protects your icon, images, other creative resources, and source code.