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Originally Posted by hardcastle
If anything this substitution would make a lot of books better. Fifty Shades of Gray would be hilarious.
Reminds me of taking public domain books and remixing them, a la Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. I wouldn't say they're equivalent works, but they're very entertaining.
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Isn't that the point? They are derivative works, and pointedly so.
This app therefore infringes copyright,
and represents itself as the original author's work!!
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Originally Posted by ApK
Interesting. If we may go slightly ad absurdium for the sake of argument, and Devil's advocacy:
What makes your words so perfect and inviolate? You deliver them from a burning bush or something? Folk tales, songs, legends, get altered and evolved and changed for peoples and cultures and that's pretty much what DEFINES cultures. If you don't want your words changed, don't publish them. Perhaps the reason that classics are classics is because the words are good, and most people don't WANT to change them, it's not because they were prohibited from changing them. There is nothing IMPROPER about that response. Maybe if lots of people want to change your words, it just means the original words weren't very good.
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Excellent comparison to folk tales, songs, and legends... and classics...
all of which are very upfront about their nature as not being the original authors' work.
A lot of authors appear to be very concerned on that basis alone.