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Suppafly04/23/20253 repliesview on HN

So you understand the issue, it's derivative works all the way down.


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xboxnolifes04/24/2025

When people say "make completely by themselves", they don't mean that were not influenced by literally no prior works. Artists can say they painted an original work entirely by themselves without needing a pedant to mention that they were probably influenced by prior work.

mikey_p04/24/2025

Clearly nothing based on Latin script can be original, which itself is based on the Etruscan Old italic alphabet, which itself it based on the Euboean alphabet — ergo, any typeface developed after say the 8th century BC is just a silly derivative.

Everything is derivative, there is nothing new under the sun, and your argument proves nothing.

jzacharia04/24/2025

at a high enough level of abstraction, all creative work is derivative. wouldn't call it an "issue"

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