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Re:I do not agree with Github's use of copyrighted code as t... by IncRnd on Saturday July 03, 2021 @04:35PM (#27724681)
> Words and sentences aren’t copy written, books are, so when exactly are a collection of words a book?

If that were true, then 20 people could each steal a single chapter from a book, and one of the people could combine those 20 chapters into a new copyright-free book. That's clearly false.

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Re:I do not agree with Github's use of copyrighted code as t... by SV_BubbleTime on Saturday July 03, 2021 @05:43PM (#27725161)
Did I say anything about paragraphs or chapters? Didn’t I specially write there is nuance?

And for your strawman, the assembly of uncopywritable components into a copywriten work, would still be a violation.

So we agree that copywriter is somewhere between the paragraphs and chapters and the book. So why are tiny code excerpts “a problem”?

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