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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Altalazar" data-source="post: 2644985" data-attributes="member: 939">If it is purely a process, actually, it may not be copyrightable and therefore it may not be a derivative work under copyright.  If I write a book and make up a formula in it, that formula is a process.  The book and its description of how to use it can be copyrighted.  The formula cannot be.  Another book describing, in different words, indepedently created, could also talk about the formula or otherwise use it.  As could a computer program.  Because you can't copyright a process like that.  To use a very basic example, if you came up with a contest and set up instructions on how to enter that, say, included using your social security number as your entry code (a bad idea these days...) your text describing the contest could be copyrighted, but the part about how to enter using the social security code could not be copyrighted - someone else is free to make their own contest using the exact same method of entering the contest.  In fact, they could use the same text describing it as well, because there are only so many ways to describe such a thing.  Central to Copyright is the fact that you CANNOT copyright an idea ONLY an expression of that idea.  And it is not like a patent - if someone else indpenendtly comes up with an IDENTICAL expression they can copyright it themselves and use it and there is no violation.  Because you can't copyright an idea, there are some expressions that can't be copyrighted - for instance, if an idea has only a handful (or even just one) way of being expressed, then it CANNOT be copyrighted, because then you could just write that one way or handful of ways down and you'd essentially bar anyone else from using that idea because all ways of expressing it would be under your copyright.  But since you can't copyright an idea, you can't get away with that and now that idea, and all ways of expressing it, cannot be copyrighted and anyone can use any of them.  Ok, enough ... I think we've digressed enough.  But I do find it telling that Wizard's legal already approved the legal page.  As expected.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />   I would suggest that you ask them about it specifically before removing any text from it, seeing that they already approved it.</blockquote>

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