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The Much-Adapted “Peter Pan” (1904 – Forever )

Velocity of Content

Preface: I wanted to learn more about the concept (and applications) of “derivative works” and adaptations under copyright law, and I was searching for a useful example that might also be interesting for readers of Velocity of Content to read about. The basic litany up through 1953: “The Little White Bird” (1902 poetry collection).

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Maybe Duct Tape Can’t Fix Everything: Slippery Standards As Copyright Goes Bananas

LexBlog IP

Next, one would, like the Morford court, look at the filtration step, a step trying to decide each “particular element of a work [that] should be filtered out during this stage” because is part of the underlying idea of the piece or derived from the public domain rather than an example of the work’s protectible expressive elements.