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		shagie 47 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Is legal the same as legitimate: AI reimplementati... In the US it isn't the sweat of the brow, but rather a minimal threshold of human creativity. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweat_of_the_brow https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_law_of_the_United_St...

reverius42 46 days ago [–]

Oh, good point. It's not related at all to effort then. Either way it still has to be a human.

JAlexoid 46 days ago | [–]

Software is considered a complete piece of work. Therefore as long as you modify a single character - that whole product is under your copyright.

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