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Originally Posted by HarryT
Nobody is suggesting that there's anything wrong with quoting an ISBN. The question was whether or not one of the goals of this work was to hide the identity of the original book. If it is, you need to get rid of the ISBN; it's not, there's no problem.
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But it's not a free debate, is it? If these scrambled books are to be sanctioned for upload to MR then MR must have the final decision on what is acceptable to be seen,
- when viewing casually (e.g. content, metadata, links to external websites)
- when debugging (filenames, comments etc).
I do need clarification on this, but there's no great urgency. If it requires more consideration by MR, so be it.
Whether the tool is also capable of being configured to be less strict than MR requires (or possibly even more strict) is not really relevant to the discussion.
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Originally Posted by HarryT
No, not the XHTML structure of the book, but the CSS definitions themselves. This is arguably a "creative" component of the book and hence may be subject to copyright. As I said in an earlier post, though, a little research suggests that there has been no legal decision made as to whether an XML scheme constitutes a programming language or a program, and hence it is up in the air as to whether or not it actually is protected by copyright.
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I'll leave the philosophy to others better equipped, but it's a fair assumption that all the short extracts which have thus far been allowable as MR uploads have made no attempt to hide Author, Title, ISBN, external links etc. All the ones I've seen have also included the full CSS file, even if it's a publisher's 'house standard' stylesheet.