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Author: G. Branden Robinson <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Fri Aug 28 19:32:14 2026 -0500
HACKING: Clarify claim.
"Copyright case" is much too broad. A copyright case need not turn on
questions of law, but might be litigated solely in terms of fact.
There are hazards to an amateur study of law that is heavily weighted
toward the consumption of appellate briefs and decisions...
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@@ -227,7 +227,7 @@ Background
could be the product of thermodynamic noise. Organizations like the
FSF establish thresholds like "15 lines changed" to ease their own
administrative procedures, but no such criterion is binding upon a
- court deciding a copyright case.
+ court deciding a question of copyright law.
* For a deeper treatment of the subject from a domain expert, please see
Jessica D. Litman's monograph, _Digital Copyright_, freely available
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