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Old 10-14-2017, 11:43 AM   #53
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An acquaintance had written a book and wanted my opinion on it. But he was afraid to email it to me in case I got hacked and it was pirated. I told him that a first-time author has to twist people's arms to get them to look at it at all: and since it was autobiographical there wasn't much chance of it being plagiarised.

As for copyrighting a TOC: if someone had enough money to blow on lawyers they might try the same logic that sometimes covers phone directories and similar compilations -- e.g. see http://ipkitten.blogspot.hk/2016/05/...directory.html

But in the end, only the lawyers would come out ahead.
In this day and age, autobiography is all the rage. It seems like every Tom, Dick and Harry thinks their life is worth reading about.
Truth be told, I would be more worried about mentioning someone that might sue for part of the royalties. Hence, why you will never see my memoirs.
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