Jonathan Dowland <j...@debian.org> writes:
> On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 01:37:36PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:

>> Ah, I hadn't ever thought about it from that angle.  Basically, the
>> argument is that if there's no original creative addition, it can't be
>> a derivative work?  On first glance, 17 U.S.C. ยง 101 appears to support
>> that:

> Eek. What about (hypothetical) derivative works which do not add
> anything, but take things away? ("this option just confuses our users")

Selection of what to take away can be a creative addition in the sense
that I meant it, so addition was probably the wrong word.

-- 
Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>


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