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So normal authors come up with an idea, then write a book about it, then release that book to the public. Pat needs his dopamine hits, so he blabs the book to the whole world before he's written a word and continually updates everyone each step of the way.
This might be a very dumb question, but what's to stop someone--like, say, noted author Owen A. Forms--from slamming out a book in three weeks where Tiny Tim, Oliver Twist, and David Copperfield go on a revenge spree, then self-publishing and copyrighting that book? Would Pat have to stop writing his dumb book or risk litigation for copyright infringement? Owen's book would already be on the market, months ahead of Pat's.
Would publishers therefore not be interested in putting out Pat's copycat book because they'd be afraid of being open to liability (in a theoretical world where any of them would have any interest to begin with)? What publisher would put out a book whose premise is identical to one that is already out?
This might be a very dumb question, but what's to stop someone--like, say, noted author Owen A. Forms--from slamming out a book in three weeks where Tiny Tim, Oliver Twist, and David Copperfield go on a revenge spree, then self-publishing and copyrighting that book? Would Pat have to stop writing his dumb book or risk litigation for copyright infringement? Owen's book would already be on the market, months ahead of Pat's.
Would publishers therefore not be interested in putting out Pat's copycat book because they'd be afraid of being open to liability (in a theoretical world where any of them would have any interest to begin with)? What publisher would put out a book whose premise is identical to one that is already out?
