It’s all made from our data, anyway, so it should be ours to use as we want

  • yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de
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    10 hours ago

    Am I allowed to take a copyrighted image, decrease its size to 1x1 pixels and publish it? What about 2x2?

    It’s very much not clear when a modification violates copyright because copyright is extremely vague to begin with.

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      4 hours ago

      Just because something is defined legally instead of technologically, that doesn’t make it vague. The modification violates copyright when the result is a derivative work; no more, no less.

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        1 minute ago

        What is a derivative work though? That’s again extremely vague and has been subject to countless lawsuits seeking to determine the bounds.