> artist making a fair-use protected transformative derivative piece of art inspired by it Those words don't really go together in that order. > the bar for c

> artist making a fair-use protected transformative derivative piece of art inspired by it Those words don't really go together in that order. > the bar for copyrightable creativity was, and still is, human creativity That's not because of anything qualitative about creativity, but is because of who can actually hold legal rights. It also has nothing to do with whether the output is considered a derivative work of any particular piece of the input.