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Originally Posted by elemenoP
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....
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It's kind of a moronic art project.
You can easily discuss the quirks of copyright without scraping randomized text and selling it as a book.
If they were really curious about this stuff, perhaps they should've sat down with a lawyer for 30 minutes and get it explained to them.
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Originally Posted by elemnop
why assume that the original commentators could be entitled to royalties, when they freely gave their own content to YouTube?
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As soon as content is in a fixed form, it's covered by copyright.
It's irrelevant if they put it on Youtube or Facebook or any other public site, or if there's compensation involved.
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Originally Posted by elemenop
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?
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Technically speaking, albeit in the absence of the certainty of legal review, the poster has control of the copyright unless the user agreement stipulates that "comments and postings are the copyright of the web forum."
You don't need to fill out any paperwork or do any fancy stuff. Fixed form = instant copyright.
It doesn't matter if you posted without expectation of compensation, that is utterly irrelevant to the establishment of copyright. If I write a software program, and I insist that I want it distributed free of charge, and that all the unique code I wrote for it cannot be used in a commercial project, it's copyright that will back me up and allow me to stipulate that it is exclusively for non-commercial use.
Again, you don't really need a bunch of Eurotrash hackers to start these kinds of discussions.