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Old 07-08-2009, 02:25 PM   #15
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Originally Posted by DixieGal View Post
This exact scenario happened here 6 or 9 months ago. I distinctly remember Patricia being livid because some doofus was selling her uploaded books on eBay, along with many of the other uploaders' books. I think it took Alex all of 15 minutes to have them taken down and the seller's account closed.

The catch was that the doofus didn't even bother to try to take out the MR blurb. It was just copy-n-paste, or maybe they were selling hard copies? Can't quite remember.
The "doofus" sounds unscrupulous, but on the other hand, as Pshrynk pointed out:

Fixing typos, smartening (or straightening) quotes, or adding an ebook wrapper doesn't give the editor a new copyright.

The reason the product in question deserved to be taken down has nothing to do with copyright, and probably nothing to do with any law at all unless MobileRead has actually registered its name as a trademark.
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