American Idol demystified

The makers of American Idol, the talent show guilty of producing the singing sensation that looks like that cousin of yours who always drools and poops in his pants, William Hung is suing a Peruvian TV company for "imitating" it. Hmm, we're kinda confused here. After all, they are and have been shows like American Idol on TV before. Then we read on and find out that the Americans feel their copyright is infringed when the Peruvians include "two supportive judges and a caustic one" in their show. So people's personalities can be copyrighted now? No wonder Malaysian Idol had to have the requisite "caustic" judge in the show. It's the format, stupid! But Paul Moss, darling, don't try so hard, ok? It made you look like you wanted so much to be Simon Cowell. You know, just like a confused teenage boy wanting to be a girl so much he wears a bra?