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    On 06/11/2012 12:52 AM, Rick Moen wrote:
    <blockquote cite="mid:20120611075204.GD5191@linuxmafia.com"
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      {scratches head}
      I think you must somehow be massively misreading what I said.
      Perhaps
      you thought I'd expressed a view about using an API (somehow)
      creating a
      derivative work? I didn't say anything of the sort.<br>
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    It's regarding your statement:<br>
    <blockquote>it doesn't seem likely to cast light on other areas of
      copyright law. 
      In particular, it cases none on what suffices to create a new work
      and
      what is a derivative work.<br>
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    The point is that there's not <i>anything else</i> in that body of
    law that would make the proposed work derivative.<br>
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