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Old 03-28-2015, 01:46 PM   #117
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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!!
Nope. This is no more infringement than tearing a page out of a paper book would be infringement. No altered work is distributed by Clean Reader, and thus there is no derivative work or any valid concern of copyright infringement.

Heck, the app doesn't even do anything to permanently change the ebooks it displays; it simply substitutes words at the time it shows you the book.

And in any case, the app had more protesters than users:
http://the-digital-reader.com/2015/0...rs-than-users/
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