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 == The stratification of copyright ==
-It may happen that creative works themselves become the basis for other creative works. When a text is translated, for example, both the original and the translation count as creative works; when a statue or a building are photographed, both the three-dimensional object and the two-dimensional image count as creative works; etc.
+It may happen that creative works themselves become the basis for other creative works. When a text is translated, for example, if the original counts as a creative work, then the translation does too; when a statue or a building are photographed, both the three-dimensional object and the two-dimensional image count as creative works; etc.
 It is important to understand how layers of copyright function in this kind of scenario, particularly because of how important the issue of transcriptions and translations is for the future of Wittgenstein studies.