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Marsymars | on: Is legal the same as legitimate: AI reimplementation and the erosion of copyleft
Plots are broadly not copyrightable, “different plot” is less important than “different characters”.
cubefox | parent
I'm pretty sure the plot is copyrightable, otherwise you could just translate Harry Potter to a different language and change the names of the characters.