Re: More GPL questions

[John Hasler]

David Kastrup writes:
> I have here a secondary literary work covering "Ulysses", consisting
> pretty much exclusively of annotations.  Where there are citations, they
> are short enough not to count as copyrightable in itself.  But it
> certainly is a derivative work.

Under US law it may very well not be.

David Kastrup writes:
> I am just saying that the lack of direct verbatim inclusion of a
> copyrightable amount of material is not a necessity in the explanation
> for literary works,

The inclusion of protected elements is.
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John Hasler 
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