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Comment Re:Misleading to call it "non-copied" (Score 1) 657

The thing I see here that makes it fly isn't the amount of effort but the obvious duplication of effort.

It doesn't matter. Copyright protects the result of a creative idea, not the creative idea itself. You can't copyright an idea.

Anyone who duplicates your work can make a similar work for which they own the copyright. This is as it should be.

This is exactly what should have happened: tell the infringer to either pay the licensing fees, or go and duplicate the effort to create his own picture. The idea is not copyrighted; he is free to copy the idea.

And, fwiw, his picture sucked. The original was much better. Apparently the guy had no artistic talent whatsoever and thought "bus on bridge in front of Big Ben... that's easy". Most of the appeal of the original was lost; the lines, the perspective, the river, heck, most of the bridge - it just isn't there.

Comment Re:"Empathy Tests" (Score 1) 200

In a certain city there was a judge who did not fear God and did not respect man. There was a widow in that city, and she kept coming to him, saying, "Give me legal protection from my opponent." For a while he was unwilling; but afterward he said to himself, "Even though I do not fear God nor respect man, yet because this widow bothers me, I will give her legal protection, otherwise by continually coming she will wear me out." Lk. 18:2-5

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