> If the answer is "humans get special treatment" then that's fine I guess but I think it's worth being explicit that that's the difference. That's absolutely

> If the answer is "humans get special treatment" then that's fine I guess but I think it's worth being explicit that that's the difference. That's absolutely the difference. Humans aren't copyrightable; the alternative would be unconscionable. > even then it's often not exact You don't have to copy something exactly to be a derivative work. "Lord of the Rings but a random 15% of words are replaced with gibberish" is still a derivative work of Lord of the Rings. So is "Lord of the Rings but every word/sentence is paraphrased".