I thought derivative works were okay if they were "transformative"? That lawsuit sounded like he had copied text verbatim. I'm not in the US, so I could easily

I thought derivative works were okay if they were "transformative"? That lawsuit sounded like he had copied text verbatim. I'm not in the US, so I could easily be off base. I really enjoyed The Time Ships by Stephen Baxter, which is a sequel to The Time Machine by H. G. Wells. He's a UK author, so maybe it's different. As a society I think we are better off with this kind of remixing so I'd hope that's the direction we head in.