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What about the cleanup work done on 3d scans?


It depends on how much original creative effort went into it. Copyright is fuzzy on purpose.

Copyright vests automatically and immediately in the creator of a creative work. This can be assigned or licensed to another party in part or in whole, at the discretion of the copyright holder.

Whether a work is creative, and therefore protected, by copyright is open to interpretation.

Facts cannot be protected through copyright. A creative representation of facts may be protected. E.g. a specific map might be protected, but this wouldn't prevent someone from making another map representing the same places




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