• Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    it has to be so newly creative as to be a different work, even though the original may still be recognizable

    Your definition implies Andy Warhol wasn’t creative.

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      3 months ago

      I think they are considered derivative, and are not protected. Not that he wasn’t creative, just that his work wasn’t so creative to be independently copyrightable. I’m a little rusty on my IP law.