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Reading the comments have made me wonder: how much editing can one do and keep the author's association? How does reusing the author's name, changing their wor
by xboxnolifes 4y ago
Reading the comments have made me wonder: how much editing can one do and keep the author's association?
How does reusing the author's name, changing their work, work? Are groups able to republish under an author's name because the author sold their name rights? Or is it something else?
If so, how much can the owner change and still attribute to the author? Could they write a whole new book and put Agatha Christie as the author? What if they just "edit" the current book with 100% new contents? Or 50%? Where does editing end and writing begin?
- mcphage 4y ago> Reading the comments have made me wonder: how much editing can one do and keep the author's association? > What if they just "edit" the current book with 100% new contents? Or 50%? Where does editing end and writing begin? What percentage are they suggesting changing here? Do you think it's 0.1% — 60 words out of 60,000? 0.5%, that would be 300. 1% would be 600 words, that seems unlikely.
- xboxnolifes 4y agoIrrelevant to my question. I am not asking anything specific to this particular change.
- mcphage 4y agoI agree you weren't asking anything specific about this change, but I wanted to make that fact clear. The publishers are talking about a change, the discussion here inspired you to ask where the threshold is, and you floated numbers like 50% or 100%, and I wanted to make clear that in the situation at hand, the change is closer to 1% or (most likely significantly) below.