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		gregschlom on Feb 12, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Long, Slow Decline of BitTorrent (2017) Wouldn't it be a derivative work of the original movie instead? (Assuming that the person creating them didn't use the CC subtitles as a reference point) Just curious about the technicalities of copyright law.

jedberg on Feb 12, 2018 [–]

Well I only phrased it that way because OP suggested running a regular expression on the English CC subtitles. :)

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