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Re:Microsoft will assume liability for legal copyright risks... by jacquesm on Thursday September 07, 2023 @04:47PM (#37425349)
It's borderline legal advice and you have to be very careful with predicting how judges will rule on future cases.

In a legal context certain words have immense power. In the context of copyright 'transformative' is one such case. It's a very fine line between 'transformative' and 'derivative' and you don't get to preempt the judiciary about how they will see things.

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Re:Microsoft will assume liability for legal copyright risks... by satvikpendem on Friday September 08, 2023 @02:29AM (#37430162)
This is not a legal context though. I am not a lawyer, I don't claim to be a lawyer, and even if I were a lawyer, no one in the internet should be taking my comments as legal advice in the first place. One should not need to disclaim everything they write with such a statement.
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