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by Alan_Dillman 1106 days ago
>Could they prove that I copied that single line from them? Would anyone care?

A year from now, you could decide to write something, and the obvious appears in your mind, and you type it out. It just happens to be identical to a line that you've read from a licensed document.

Did you copy it? Were you inventing, or remembering? Did you copy/paste from your own mind? Should you attribute the one who lugged the block of marble last year? What about last week? Everything you'll ever think is informed by everything you've thunk before.

This is a good reason for the law to not care about small things.