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It would depend on how transformative the work is.

There is in fact a whole art form where people cut out words from different newspapers and books, for example, and re-arrange those words to form new and interesting art.

So there are ways in which such a work would be a creative work, and ways it which it would not, and it would depend on the particular instance and example.



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