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Originally Posted by Doitsu
Of course not, but what about the Youtube commentators? It's hard to imagine that someone would actually buy a book with a title like "Alot was been hard," but wouldn't the original commentators theoretically be entitled to royalties if someone actually bought one of these masterpieces?
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I think you guys are missing the point. The books were not created to make money for the people who created them, it's an art project, just to try it and see what happens. They don't care if one person actually pays for a book. And why assume that the original commentators could be entitled to royalties, when they freely gave their own content to YouTube? They gave it away, now YouTube (probably) owns it. Can YouTube sue for this? I don't know. This is the discussion that the art project is meant to engender. Do you know if you own the comment that you just posted here on MobileRead? How do you own it if you just gave it away, for free? Does MobileRead own it? Does anybody own it? Can anybody do anything they like with it?
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