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Hello I am new to calibre and I wanted to know if I convert my book using calibre does calibre claim any rights to my work?
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It does insert a couple of metatags, but that is it. BTW some of those tags can be read when you add that book to Calibre. They contain some non-(industry) standard metadata, like 'Series' |
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By claim I mean do they own any rights to the work I create by using their software?
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In some cases, a company you work for might claim they own the rights, depending. But I am not a lawyer. Last edited by unboggling; 01-13-2014 at 07:03 PM. |
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One exception is if you create a ebook management system and use calibre as a basis. Then you have to make your system open source software, just like calibre is. That is part of the license for calibre.
But this does not apply at all to ebooks you create using calibre. |
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If Calibre could claim any rights, Kovid would be RICH, even at 1cent per converted book.
That is how many books that involve a calibre conversion at some point. Big time publishers, Garage Publishers, (No cave dweller, they had no electricity ) Seriously. Look at the code. There are tell-tales of calibre in many-many books . |
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Thank you all for the replies. I understand how rights work with regards to general copyright knowledge. Being a newbie to ebook creating I wanted to be absolutely sure. Thanks again!
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01-13-2014, 07:35 PM | #9 |
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No harm in making sure.
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