The Copyright Act supports the GPL

[jcowan at reutershealth.com]

Russell McOrmond scripsit:

>   If I take a Hollywood movie, create a laugh track where I think
> something funny happened, it is not my right to distribute the new
> combined work.

Nobody disputes that.  But Daniel is claiming that if you *do* in fact have
permission to create the movie + laugh track, that you *also* then need
further permission to distribute it.  I deny this.  Once you have lawfully
prepared your derivative work, you may distribute it on your own terms;
what the GPL does is prevent your work from being licensed if you distribute
it other than under the GPL, making the creation of the derivative work not lawful.

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