On 16/09/2010 06:38, Anthony Appleyard wrote:
> On 15/09/2010 17:25, Steve Doerr wrote:
>>
>> At a guess, it's probably a printout of the Wikipedia articles on those subjects. There are over 300,000 books listed on
>> Amazon for the author 'Books LLC' (see http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/search/ref=sr_nr_p_n_binding_browse-b_1?rh=n:266239,p_27:Books+Llc,p_n_binding_browse-bin:492564011&bbn=266239&ie=UTF8&qid=1284567361&rnid=492562011 ) and the titles are similar: lists of subjects in a particular category.
>>
>> Presumably the Creative Commons licence used by Wikipedia allows anyone to sell their content to anyone
>> prepared to pay for it.
>
> John Briggs wrote:
>> Yes, and as the right (no, the duty!) to fleece the gullible is enshrined in the US Constitution,
>> there's nothing we can do about it.
>
> I am not a lawyer, but It still looks like prosecutable dishonesty to me :: the advertizement advertized what seems to be a new and original book about toponymists, but its text is merely what can be got easily free of charge from another source.
It's probably just as well you are not a lawyer - no claim (prosecutable
or otherwise) has been made. And Americans can react violently to anyone
seeking to infringe their rights.
John Briggs
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