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    11 days ago

    Yeah there were similar battles in music copyright about whether a style of music as a whole can be copyrighted. Overall, the answer is “hell no” but with a couple outlier cases. This steps a lot on stuff like parody, which is protected by the first amendment as “fair use”. But it gets messy when things are “too similar” – a grey area exists