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Originally Posted by dwig
Also, any other creative addition can be copyrighted. This includes typography, layout, and the actual code for the page. Copying the text would be fine, but copying the site's HTML code and CSS file and republishing them, on another website or wrapping them up as an ePub, would be dubious.
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dwig:
As far as I know, typography and layout CANNOT be copyrighted. It's a common lament amongst designers, of every type of thing--digital media, physical, etc. You can design a brand-new website, and the layout, coloring, etc. aren't subject to any protection. (n.b.: of course, if you create a logo, a look, branding, THAT can be trademarked, but that's a different thing.)
The code? Yes, the code IS copyrightable. Thus, even if the book were remade into a glorious, webpage by webpage rendering of the original, the book itself--the text?--not, under US copyright law, and the layout, not.
Hitch