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Re:Megaface by schemescape on Monday January 02, 2023 @03:39PM (#34223335)
Thanks. Yes, I shouldn't have said "verbatim" -- I meant something more like "close enough to cause legal trouble". Obviously copying verbatim is a violation of copyright, but there must be some threshold of "close enough" that is still problematic. E.g. compressed MP3s of copyrighted songs aren't a verbatim reproduction, but as far as I'm aware they're still covered by copyright.

Trademarks are even broader.

Re:Megaface by makapuf on Monday January 02, 2023 @06:32PM (#34225255)
A band playing publicly a reinterpretation of a famous band will get sued even if its not verbatim.
Re:Megaface by schemescape on Monday January 02, 2023 @07:23PM (#34225753)
That’s an even better example.