• Barbarian@sh.itjust.works
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    3 months ago

    According to a quick Google search (I’m no expert on copyright law), a sufficiently original email is automatically copyrighted. What constitutes “sufficiently original” seems to be pretty arbitrary.

    So I guess if you post a short story, that’s automatically copyrighted. Commenting “this” is not. And then there’s a huge grey zone in the middle.

    • SorteKanin@feddit.dk
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      3 months ago

      I think the same basically applies to… Anything. I mean a sufficiently original book is copyrighted but a sufficiently unoriginal book is not. Substitute book with any kind of media you want.

      Makes you realize how finicky copyright is.