Re:Open source licenses need to leave the 1980s and evolve t...
by JoshTriplett on Sunday June 25, 2023 @07:21PM
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> If the answer is "humans get special treatment" then that's fine I guess but I think it's worth being explicit that that's the difference.
That's absolutely the difference. Humans aren't copyrightable; the alternative would be unconscionable.
> even then it's often not exact
You don't have to copy something exactly to be a derivative work. "Lord of the Rings but a random 15% of words are replaced with gibberish" is still a derivative work of Lord of the Rings. So is "Lord of the Rings but every word/sentence is paraphrased".
That's absolutely the difference. Humans aren't copyrightable; the alternative would be unconscionable.
> even then it's often not exact
You don't have to copy something exactly to be a derivative work. "Lord of the Rings but a random 15% of words are replaced with gibberish" is still a derivative work of Lord of the Rings. So is "Lord of the Rings but every word/sentence is paraphrased".