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by Piskvorrr 4351 days ago
It's a matter of arriving at the result. In other words, what matters is whether you used the original (and with what intent), not whether you arrived at the same result. Unfortunately, both of these are hard to prove.

Not exactly intuitive, I'd agree; see e.g. this: http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23

(Oh, and it's "copyright")