body: So I've been reading through the new copyright directive proposal and saw the pastiche exemption.
  
  
  So take this hypothetical:
  
  
  I forgot how anime.js worked to animate something.  
  
  I find a piece of example code on Stack Overflow that shows how it works to initalize it and to animate something to the left and then fade away  
  
  I write my own implementation without copying the original code in my codebase, that does a different animation, move to the bottom and fade in, inspired by the code example on Stack Overflow.
  
  
  Would that be a pastiche? Or would that still fill under CC-BY-SA 3.0 because I took a work for inspiration, **not copied it though**, but created my own example inspired by that code, and am required to follow all requirements of the CC-BY-SA license?
  
  
  The only references to pastiche I've been able to find have dealt with an artist reusing work for comedic or entertainment purposes from Britisch guidelines.
  
  
  Miriam webster defines it as: **a literary**, artistic, musical, or architectural work that imitates the style of previous work.
  
  
  Code is a literary work in my opinion. You write words in a document in a grammatically defined language, so theoretically with my interpretation, basing code upon someone elses code could interpret that as a pastiche.
  
  
  I'm mostly curious because of this part from the final text of the former article 13 text:
  
  
  <http://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/A-8-2018-0245-AM-271-271_EN.pdf>
  
  
  
  > 
  > The cooperation between online content-sharing service providers and
  >  rightholders shall not result in the prevention of the availability of
  >  works or other subject matter uploaded by users, which do not infringe
  >  copyright and related rights, including where such works or other
  >  subject matter are covered by an exception or limitation.  
  > 
  >  Member States shall ensure that users in each Member State are able to rely
  >  on any of the following existing exceptions or limitations when
  >  uploading and making available content generated by users on online
  >  content-sharing services:  
  > 
  >  (a) quotation, criticism, review  
  > 
  >  (b) use for the purpose of caricature, parody or **pastiche**
  > 
  > 
  > 
  
  
  Answers relevant to the European Union please, and i'm mostly interested if there are actual precedents for these "outlier" cases?
  
  
  
title: When I am inspired by code on Stack Overflow, and make workable code on basis of that code, is that also pastiche?