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Originally Posted by Moejoe
Well, you can already do that, sort of. You could copy the original design with a screen shot and then upload it to cafepress or some other similar service. And it depends on the license of the design also. If you use Public Domain images (as I'm looking at now) then you wouldn't have any true claims over the design being used, therefore no real claims if someone did copy the design.
I think the sentiment was more how you can get people involved and extend sales beyond the actual content of the book. Added-value, I suppose, or extended value.
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No, the thesis was the copyrights for books were no longer technologically feasible, so authors should switch to other ways of generating revenues from readers who want to support them but don't want to pay them directly for ebooks (or don't want to pay enough). The prime suggestion was t-shirts; I was pointing out that t-shirts would one day be just as vulnerable to the same easy technological piracy. Your screen shot idea is more akin to using photocopiers to copy books today; not equivalent in terms of ease and convenience.