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I can't respond for the OP of course, but I can tell you this: he put work in it. He did the job of two fine respectable professions: the editor and the design
by Torwald 6y ago
I can't respond for the OP of course, but I can tell you this: he put work in it.
He did the job of two fine respectable professions: the editor and the designer. That's worth something, even when he didn't write the content.
- madhadron 6y agoHowever, he does not own the content or have a license to redistribute or sell it, and compiling it into an ebook to sell is clearly outside of fair use doctrine.
- bdcravens 6y agoDid he have the permission of either Reddit or the author of those comments?
- bdcravens 6y agoIt would seem it's not necessary: "By submitting user content to reddit, you grant us a royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive, unrestricted, worldwide license to reproduce, prepare derivative works, distribute copies, perform, or publicly display your user content in any medium and for any purpose, including commercial purposes, and to authorize others to do so. (emphasis mine)
- Torwald 6y agoThe question was not "it is right to take money" but, "why would OP come up with the idea of taking money".
- coliveira 6y agoThe big question is: did he ask permission to each person who contributed to this? One thing is to have your words in a web site, another is to have them included in a ebook that someone else is profiting off.