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Bjartr
on June 10, 2018
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Inventor says Google is patenting work he put in t...
How does copyright handle that problem since copyright is automatic?
bdowling
on June 10, 2018
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It doesn't matter who created a copyrighted work first, because independent creation is an absolute defense to copyright infringement.
Nomentatus
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Proof of independent creation might be; but similarity provides a statistical test of that. Cases use similarity and probability, they don't take "independent creators" at their word.
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