RE: How Many Trees? (WAS: URGENT: Immediate ethical issue)

["Mark Baker" <mbaker -at- ca -dot- stilo -dot- com>]

> Legally, there is no infringement (as I did not copy
> your paragraph verbatim), but my paragraph is not
> really "original" either, as I needed yours to inspire
> me. So, is anything truly original (now)?

You have created a derivitive work, and that is an infringment. Copyright
law prohibits dirivitve works made without the owner's permission. Copyright
protects the author's work, not their ideas. But the protection of the work
is not limited to verbatim transcripts but extends to anything that is
manifestly a derivitive of their work.

It is possible to look this stuff up folks.
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