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If you read the video with a view to reproducing it then you created a derivative work, ie copyright infringement.

If you just used it for inspiration, that's fine; if the way it was coded is a result of technical constraints, that's fine too; if the code is generic it's not distinctive enough to acquire copyright in the first place.



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