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"You've decided to put together a compilation of poems that you have written with poems from authors works that you are very familiar with and very fond of. But you don't know what you can put in and what you have to leave out and what's copyrightable and what's not and so forth and so on. Hello I'm Robert Todd and I'm here to answer the question what is a derivative work under copyright law. Well there is a definition found at seventeen USC section one o one but if you read that definition you may still not know. It's important to know that a derivative work is not a primitive or an original work , in other words it's not in any of the poems that you've written. It's something that was previously published. But this is an area of the law that is very complex and is very comprehensive and I strongly urge you to look at the website for the United States Copyright offices and if you find that you don't really understand what's going on and what's being explained in that website get a lawyer that regularly practices in this area of the law. And you'll save your self a lot of time and money in the long run. I'm Robert Todd and thank you for watching."
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