"Copyright infringement for free ebooks?" - an idea
I recently read an article in MIT press. It described a company that someone started to
make free ebooks that mimic the topics and presentation in most popular books.
It has gotten sued by major publishers.
So the idea is you take the table of contents from a popular book and the company
does a search on Wikipedia to extract the topics and create a book that mimics the flow
and information.
It made me wonder if a flow of a book is patentable? For example, if I am teaching a course
I would follow the table of contents pretty closely because the order makes intuitive sense. Yes you can vary the flow a little by moving topics but for overall coverage in most classes the flow will not change that much.
Today's question is:
"Could you create a book, on a subject of interest, for yourself based on a Wikipedia contents?"
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