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Originally Posted by pdurrant
I must respectfully disagree with HarryT here. When all the text in a book has been replaced by random letters, there is no copyrightable material left.
When no copyright material remains (and the letters that remain were determined by random choice, not derived from the original material) I fail to see how it could be considered a derived work.
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Well, I did say that it was just a personal opinion
. To my mind, if you use an algorithm to create a new work from an old one, then
by definition the new work has been derived from the old one, regardless of whether or not the new one is readable.
But at the end of the day, this is probably one of those things that only a judge could make a decision on, and I personally wouldn't take the chance. But that's just me
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