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Derivative Work In copyright, a new creative work based upon an existing work. To be separately protected under copyright law, a derivative must include sufficient original creative work.
Derivative Work definition:
Intellectual property (copyright): a work that builds on, or reassembles, with some degree of originality, existing works.
Sterling defines a derivative work as:
"... works which are based on other works." ...
DERIVATIVE WORK - 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, ...
Derivative work
Definition - Noun
: a piece of intellectual property that substantially derives from an underlying work ...
For example, the copyright which subsists in relation to a Mickey Mouse cartoon prohibits unauthorized parties from distributing copies of the cartoon or creating derivative works which copy or mimic Disney's particular anthropomorphic mouse, ...
A copyright is comprised of a number of exclusive rights, including the right to make copies, authorize others to make copies, make derivative works, sell and market the work and perform the work.
 See also: Derivative, Information, Copyright, Law, Court
  
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