• ParadoxSeahorse@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    “Derivative” is less questionable than “work”.

    For eg. AI Gen imagery is not copyrightable for the most part, legally closer to plagiarism than art?

    • HobbitFoot @thelemmy.club
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      3 days ago

      Derivative describes what happened to the copyrighted work, not what slop was churned out by it.

      If the plagiarism is far enough from the original work, it isn’t protected by the original copyright.