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A good rule of thumb is if the derivative work is drawing sales away from the original work. Nobody is buying Captain America - The Winter Soldier to calculate
by owisd 4y ago
A good rule of thumb is if the derivative work is drawing sales away from the original work. Nobody is buying Captain America - The Winter Soldier to calculate the SHA256 so the movie studio sustains no losses from it being shared, so it shouldn’t count as copyright infringement.
- jcranmer 4y ago> A good rule of thumb is if the derivative work is drawing sales away from the original work. That's a horrible rule of thumb. The canonical example of a derivative work is adaptation--the film of the book, for example--which frequently increases sales of the original work. Drawing sales away from the original work is one of the factors used in fair use, and frequently ends up being the most important one.
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