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It mostly focuses on what you contribute vs. what you "borrow." If you
take something and "just" reworked it then you'd be in violation of the
copyright, but if you take something from several sources and expand it
to your own creation then your not, even if it were word for word the
exact writing as someone elses. Now in case of a dispute one of two
things will happen. 1: a judge will ask you "did you copy that work?"
and either believe you or not or 2: (AND VASTLY MORE LIKELY) look at
the works in question and based on the likelyhood that such a work could
be spontaniously created as well as how much HE feels was original
content decide weather you in violation or not.
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I just want to jump in on this thread and mention something that
happened a long time back. Back when I was in highschool, I was in a
programming class with a friend (pretty good friends at the time), and
we had one project, which we had almost the exact same code, line for
line, but we had not even as much as looked at the others screen. The
teacher had asked us about it, I suppose due to the surprise on our
faces, he believed us when we said we didn't copy each others work.
Yeah, it's very possible for two separate individuals with no contact to
come up with similar works.
What do you think might happen in a case where a work was virtually
similar, and at the same time by two different authors, that had no
contact what-so-ever ?
That would be interesting to see.
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