You can use the phrase "mere copying" in written English.
It is often used to convey the idea that something is nothing more than an exact, unoriginal imitation of something else. For example, "His writing was nothing more than mere copying of the ideas of others."
Google – the vendor – and the studios – the rights holders – are using copyright to control something much more profound than mere copying.
And of course there are several not-Rembrandts that, if they had been placed near Rembrandts, might have had something to tell us about devotion to a master that goes beyond mere copying.
St. Mark's goes well beyond the mere copying of Gothic forms: Notman captured the very essence of medieval Gothic church architecture, as is evident to anyone who attends the Sunday night Compline service, sung in Latin with the church illuminated only by candles.
Thus, replication (which is contrasted by Griesemer with mere copying) is a special case of inheritance, itself a special cases of biological reproduction.
Some have denigrated it as mere copying, to which others have countered that Lichtenstein altered his sources in significant, creative ways.
The animation is a subtle critique of what GogoJ sees as the current state of artistic affairs in China, where creativity is taking a back seat to mere copying.
The patterns of 1870 1910 were not, however, mere copies or repetitions of colonial trends.
Why give such a lavish setting to a mere copy? he wondered.
Its practitioners are hacks, whose domain is Grub Street and who produce mere copy.
Some sniff that Indian e-commerce firms are mere copies of Western ones, or that they largely serve the rich.
Yet it is a room full of unassuming botanical specimens, mere copies of flowers, that draws the crowds each day.
