God did not have to work
from preexisting material that resisted his purposes.
(b) The copyright in a compilation or derivative work extends only to the material contributed by the author of such work, as distinguished
from the preexisting material employed in the work, and does not imply any exclusive right in the preexisting material.
Not exact matches
Demand often culls his source
material from preexisting images found in the media, such as the interior of the Fukushima Daichi power plant after the 2011 tsunami, or the United States Oval Office.
See 17 U.S.C. § 103 (b) as an example of domestic law: The copyright in a compilation or derivative work extends only to the
material contributed by the author of such work, as distinguished
from the
preexisting...