Remove Fanworks Remove Ownership Remove Public Domain
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IPSC Breakout Session #2: mostly copyright and then marijuana innovation

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Taken copyright-protected material and transformed it into public domain material—dangerous for law firms. A teenager who sells a fanwork based on a tentpole movie feels different than a movie studio that creates a tentpole movie from her short story. The input was copyrightable; the output is not. Copyright for humans only?