Quote:
Originally Posted by pdurrant
I must respectfully disagree with HarryT here. When all the text in a book has been replaced by random letters, there is no copyrightable material left.
When no copyright material remains (and the letters that remain were determined by random choice, not derived from the original material) I fail to see how it could be considered a derived work.
|
Is it possible to get a definitive MR stance? The only point in continuing work is if it is "MR-acceptable" to post the resulting scrambled ebook.
If it
is OK to proceed in principle I think we would need a definite yes/no about
:
- Cover image
- TOC entry text
- metadata in the OPF file (author, title, identifier, subject, description, publisher plus any calibre specifics)
All of the above probably exist in free samples but if they were all scrambled - in addition to the normal text content - it's not immediately obviously how anyone could identify the book or what it's about. But that's a practical opinion not a legal one.