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Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, April 21 2012 @ 01:20 AM EDT |
I went looking and if Wikipedia is to be believed, the following passage
answers my question:
<blockquote>A typical example of a derivative work received for
registration in the Copyright Office is one that is primarily a new work but
incorporates some previously published material. This previously published
material makes the work a derivative work under the copyright law. To be
copyrightable, a derivative work must be different enough from the original
to be regarded as a "new work" or must contain a substantial amount of
new material. Making minor changes or additions of little substance to a
preexisting work will not qualify the work as a new version for copyright
purposes. The new material must be original and copyrightable in itself.
</blockquote>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derivative_work
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