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[theweaselking]

Publisher alters, copyrights, sells Principia Discordia.

Internet "Discordians" everywhere object heartily to being on receiving end of own trolling practices, sit in parents' basement and cry like little girls who've lost their puppies.

Comments

[mcfnord.livejournal.com]

you can't sell my greatness. shop as usual, and avoid panic buying.

[drjon.livejournal.com]

*kick (http://drjon.livejournal.com/676404.html)*

[anivair.livejournal.com]

That's funny and possibly appropriate, though it is not unlike editing hte bible for content and claiming copywrite (which has been done before, but I would have been against it then too).

[jerril]

It certainly is rude but what they've done doesn't appear particularly wrong. I find the chaos and confusion that's broken out among the forum-Discordians to be ironic (Hi, Alanis), and highly amusing.

[zenten.livejournal.com]

How do you "copyright" something? I was under the impression that if you produce an original work, it's copyrighted, if it's not original, it's not copyrighted. So the issue here is just weather or not the book in question is altered enough to be protected by copyright.

[unnamed525.livejournal.com]

Copyright (and patent) laws in the US (and to some extent the world) are confused to the point of stupidity.

[pope-guilty.livejournal.com]

...and apparently chopping up the layout and slightly altering the text constitutes just enough of a change.

Wonder if that'd work with The DaVinci Code.

[zenten.livejournal.com]

Does it though?

Simple solution, start redistributing that book, without anyone's permission, and see who wins in court.