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From Lee v. Deck the Walls, Inc., 925 F.Supp. 576 (N.D.Ill.1996): Since both parties agree that Annie Lee held valid copyrights to the fifteen works of art allegedly "copied" by ART, the court need only address the second element of copyright infringement, whether ART engaged in "copying" Annie Lee's works as defined by the Copyright Act. Annie Lee first argues that each ceramic tile produced by ART is a "derivative work" which Annie Lee had the exclusive right to prepare. A "derivative work" is a "work based upon one [ page 579] or more preexisting works, such as a translation, musical arrangement, dramatization, fictionalization, motion picture version, sound recording, art reproduction, abridgment, condensation, or any other form in which a work may be recast, transformed, or adapted." 17 U.S.C. § 101. Moreover, a "derivative work" is a work "consisting of editorial revisions, annotations, elaborations, or other modifications which, as a whole, represent an original work of authorship." Id.