Hi Nick,
On 05/11/2005, at 11:09 AM, Nick Holland wrote:
If you publish a book, and I duplicate it in every way EXCEPT that I
change one character in one location, or the color of the cover, or
insert a page with the text, "THIS PAGE INTENTIONALLY LEFT (almost)
BLANK", I can argue that it is a different book (different md5!),
but I
suspect you would feel cheated, and the courts would probably agree.
I believe a lawyer friend of mine would refer to this situation as the
two being "substantially similar". However the legal copyright sense
of "substantially similar" can be _ridiculously_ miniscule.
Shane J Pearson
