In United States copyright law, a derivative work is an expressive creation that includes major, copyright-protected elements of an original, previously created first work (the underlying work).
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Famous quotes containing the words derivative and/or work:
“When we say science we can either mean any manipulation of the inventive and organizing power of the human intellect: or we can mean such an extremely different thing as the religion of science the vulgarized derivative from this pure activity manipulated by a sort of priestcraft into a great religious and political weapon.”
—Wyndham Lewis (18821957)
“But he had gone his way, the grass all mown,
And I must be, as he had been,alone,
As all must be, I said within my heart,
Whether they work together or apart.”
—Robert Frost (18741963)