On Thu, 2003-12-11 at 15:16, Brian T. Sniffen wrote: > > > > That would seem to fit much better than derivative work, yes. > > However I do wonder whether the combination of host and plugin > > constitutes an original work of authorship? There seems to > > be little creativity involved. > > Sure there is -- but it's performed by the person who wrote the > plugin, as he sculpts the interface to fit to the host, and to provide > useful functionality to it -- not merely by itself.
Copyright law (at least in the US) recongnizes that a creative effort can go into selecting, arranging, etc. the pieces of a compilation. If there is sufficient creativity in doing that, the compilation gets a copyright which is seperate from the copyrights of each of the works inside the compilation.
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