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by JoshTriplett 1086 days ago
> 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".