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Retrictoday at 12:35 AM2 repliesview on HN

That’s not enough to generate copyright protection.

The creativity requirements may seem arbitrary but there’s a legal distinction between a sculpture and a standard brick.


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grueztoday at 12:47 AM

>The creativity requirements may seem arbitrary but there’s a legal distinction between a sculpture and a standard brick.

Or more relevantly, a recipe find on recipe sites (with the author's entire backstory) vs a sequence of instructions. The latter is not copyrightable, even if there was some creativity that went into it (eg. word choice).