Threshold of originality

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What Wikipedia says

In copyright law, the threshold of originality is used to assess whether a particular work can be copyrighted. It is used to distinguish works that are sufficiently original to warrant copyright protection from those that are not.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Threshold of originality”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

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