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>that content to be redistributed against your will That is fine. >If it makes me happy to write my name on the cover and pretend I wrote "Robert Frost's Poet
by lannisterstark 3y ago
>that content to be redistributed against your will
That is fine.
>If it makes me happy to write my name on the cover and pretend I wrote "Robert Frost's Poetry Collection" then so be it.
You can do whatever you want in your own house. No one is trying to dictate terms of what you do in your own private time in your own domicile. The problem occurs when you try to profit from my work, by pretending you did the work, and selling it to the public pretending to own and create the work which you have not.
>I can even sell that adulterated copy under the First Sale doctrine.
However, the idea of "You can add a chapter to this, call it your own, and sell it" and I won't legally come after you is absurd. and if the results of said legal pursuit result in you being bankrupt...what was the phrase you used, "then so be it."
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Alternatively, you could write your own fictionalized work and sell it. But that requires more work than copying what I wrote, calling it yours, and selling it, doesn't it?
- smoldesu 3y ago> However, the idea of "You can add a chapter to this, call it your own, and sell it" and I won't legally come after you is absurd. The only part of this that seems legally problematic is copying and redistributing the part that you wrote. If I wanted to buy 10,000 copies of A Game of Thrones so I could staple my fanfiction to the back and sell it on Etsy, there is no legal precedent suggesting I could be stopped. It is a lawful transformation of a legally licensed product, payed for in-full and redistributed in accordance with it's individual license. Absent any extenuating contracts between the owner and seller, I don't see what legal ground you would have to stand on. > and if the results of said legal pursuit result in you being bankrupt...what was the phrase you used, "then so be it." "if" indeed. Let's check in with the Author's Guild and see how this fight is going: https://www.copyright.gov/fair-use/summaries/authorsguild-google-2dcir2015.pdf https://www.copyright.gov/fair-use/summaries/authorsguild-go...