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Originally Posted by tompe
I do not think it is copyright that does this. If you steel someones notes and publish it in your name than that seems to me to be some kind of fraud. So why do you need copyright?
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Someone else could grab the notes, add an intro, and publish under both names. That still gives the original author credit, but not as much as they would get on their own.
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Also extending something to a book without telling who has written what seems to be fraud also or plagiarism.
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Not if the book is published as, "Super Breakthrough by John Q Schemer, based on an article by Jane Scientist." And the article could be quoted selectively to support JQ Schemer's pet theories, when the original didn't support them at all.