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doubleshuffle · 04-23-2014, 02:26 AM

The texts are in the public domain, and yes, you are free to take them from any source you like, format them and sell them if you wish to. But it is very bad style to take books others have worked countless hours on - transcribing them, correcting OCRed scans (or even, as I know of many of pynch's books, scanning them themselves), and then formatting them - and sell them with all the formatting intact, without any hint on the source. It might be legal, but it's still a very unpleasant rip-off.

I'm not good on the legal stuff: perhaps somenehere can enlighten me what kind of License statement I could put in a book to make copying it wholesale illegal. Is there something like that?

04-23-2014, 02:26 AM	#13
doubleshuffle Unicycle Daredevil Posts: 13,944 Karma: 185432100 Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: Planet of the Pudding Brains Device: Aura HD (R.I.P. After six years the USB socket died.) tolino shine 3	The texts are in the public domain, and yes, you are free to take them from any source you like, format them and sell them if you wish to. But it is very bad style to take books others have worked countless hours on - transcribing them, correcting OCRed scans (or even, as I know of many of pynch's books, scanning them themselves), and then formatting them - and sell them with all the formatting intact, without any hint on the source. It might be legal, but it's still a very unpleasant rip-off. I'm not good on the legal stuff: perhaps somenehere can enlighten me what kind of License statement I could put in a book to make copying it wholesale illegal. Is there something like that? Last edited by poohbear_nc; 04-23-2014 at 01:41 PM.