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by Talanes 1806 days ago
>In your hypothetical, this would be akin to me going on Google books and copying snippets of copyrighted works for my own book.

A book completely written by pasting passages of other books would actually be a pretty interesting transformative work.

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Yeah, but a book like this would be an artistic work.

While software is in this limbo between copyrights and patents...