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Originally Posted by hardcastle
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.
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Originally Posted by Nate the great
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/ |
In my book, that is exactly what they are doing when the censored books are supplied by the app itself. I could not possibly care less that the actual source files are unedited -- the reading experience, as an
integrated ebook vendor solution, sells books that are being censored.
I have already stated that I support stupid peoples' right to do whatever stupid things they want, so long as it is clear that they are not affiliated in any way, shape, or form with the authors or publishers. Now that the app has been fixed, to require buying the book from an innocuous source, and manually sideloaded into an app that is an "ereader which filters your books" rather than an "ereader with filtered books", I am satisfied.
Heck, parents have always had the right to raise their kids however they like, within certain relatively new, and lenient, boundaries like no beating the hell out of them.
Why should this app be any different?