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A misconception among many people is that if material appears on the Internet, then it is free for the taking. However, just because you receive information or find it posted on the Internet, this does not mean that you are free to reproduce it and forward it (distribute, transmit, etc.) to others without appropriate permission or without a license agreement if your use is beyond fair use. Copyright notices are not required by law, so if you do not see a copyright notice on any item, do not assume that it is free to use or pass along to others.
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A 'derivative work' is a work based upon one or more preexisting works, such as a translation, musical arrangement, dramatization, fictionalization, motion picture version, sound recording, art reproduction, abridgment, condensation, or any other form in which an original work may be recast, transformed, or adapted. Based on this definition, only the original copyright owner has the right to publish a derivative work.
A work consisting of editorial revisions, annotations, elaborations, comment/review, or other modifications, which, as a whole, represent an original work of authorship, is considered an 'original work' if, and only if, the new work contains sufficient original material. For example, a critique of a canonical research paper, in which large amounts of the original canonical paper are quoted, is not, by the above definition, considered a 'derivative work' but would be classified an original work, and does not need permission from the copyright owner of the original paper. In other words, if your work is based on an original work and it can be easily discerned that you based your work on another without sufficient added material, then you will need to obtain permission because only the copyright owner has the right to prepare a derivative work or authorize others to do so.
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