Answers to Textbook Questions Copyrighted?

Mike Masnick has a new post disagreeing with a recent court decision that answers to textbook questions were a derivative work. From the post:

This still makes no sense to me. First, there’s no “copying.” Second, isn’t answering a question a “factual” statement? How can answering a question be copyright infringement?

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