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Re:Save, Create and Run Your Own Pirate Bay by jacquesm on Sunday December 28, 2014 @03:14PM (#8807289)
Technically that is a derived work produced through an automated process. You wouldn't come up with that hash all by your lonesome, you need the content to do it.
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Re:Save, Create and Run Your Own Pirate Bay by pyre on Sunday December 28, 2014 @07:23PM (#8808017)
I don't know if that interpretation has ever been tested in court though. There are limits to what can be a derived work.
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Re:Save, Create and Run Your Own Pirate Bay by venomsnake on Sunday December 28, 2014 @04:09PM (#8807487)
No, its not, because I never consume the content - it never passes a decoder. If I burn my mp3 player (with licenced music) in liquid oxygen, does the company that owns the right claim that the smoke is derived work?
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