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		HPsquared 8 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Judge rejects Meta's claim that torrenting is “irr... "Transformative" is a legal term with a specific meaning. The copyrighted work has to be transformed somehow rather than copied. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transformative_use

Incipient 8 months ago [–]

Ahh, good pick up. Thanks, I definitely had the wrong understanding of transformative. Mostly around transforming the use case.

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