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Originally Posted by eschwartz
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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You can do whatever you want to a book (including making derivative works) as long as you don't distribute the results - which is what copyright protects against.
This is not infringing copyright unless you use this tool to create a censored book and then sell it.
Were the original app developers doing this? I'm not sure. But users censoring their own books is not remotely close to a copyright violation. I find that the more hysterical people get over maintaining the "sanctity and sacredness of the author's intentions" are both missing the point and also conflating those concerns with copyright law.