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Originally Posted by HarryT
This sounds like rather blatant copyright infringement to me. You can't republish someone's comments without their permission.
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Actually, the initiators claimed that this is one of the issues that they wanted to raise:
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The project wants to raise questions like: who do YouTube videos/comments belong to? Where does authorship start and end? To what extent does the e-book format have to be reconsidered with regard to the traditional book form, and what are its most innovative opportunities? How could we act and work on it?
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I'm surprised that Youtube/Google didn't file copyright infringement lawsuits against the publisher on behalf of their "content providers."
I worry that this will encourage other "artists" to publish dadaist books on Amazon. It's only a matter of time before someone adapts
SCIgen or similar tools for ebooks and publishes convincing looking science books.