There are many Wikipedia or Fandom Wiki articles that go into so much detail that, in some cases, it tells you more about the story than even watching or reading the original content could tell you. Why is this allowed, and when does it cross the line to becoming an issue?
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Summaries are not against copyright.
This is why stuff like Cliff’s Notes is legal.
There is a point where a summary is so detailed that it becomes a derivative work, but pinpointing that exact limit is difficult.
Reducing a tv show that it would take half an hour to watch into a summary that it will take less than a minute to read probably won’t come anywhere close to that limit.
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