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Originally Posted by DuskyRose
Copying another's work is not 'expression' unless it is using parts of another's work for research or other such purposes as covered in 'fair use'.
Just sharing other people's creations is not showing any creativity at all, nor expressing who they are.
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It can be, but that's very very oblique to this discussion.
The easiest example is a mix tape made on a specific theme, where you need the full songs, in a specific order, to get the right emotional impact. Or making a soundtrack to a movie or tv show clips. Another example is a collage, like the mosaic pictures made of photographs. Creating a mix of books would be more difficult, but not impossible; creating a mix of book chapters or short stories would be easy. That's what anthology editors do, and it's very much considered a creative act.
There are other potential examples; some of them are fairly strange.
However, the fact that there are creative uses of entire sets of other people's creations, doesn't mean that the 1st amendment always trumps copyright law. The first amendment has been interpreted to mean the state needs a compelling interest to limit free speech, not that the state is not allowed to restrict free speech.