My ex-doctor wrote a book...
"Valentin" wrote in message
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....on Surgery in Ukrainian language. He is 84 years old and it took him
about 30 years to write it.The Book has 233 separate chapters, 200 - 600
pages in each chapter. For the last 4 years I have been helping him mainly
with computer's hardware issues and also how to back up the text on CD's.
The text is written mainly in Word 97 with some elements of Word Perfect,
and it "weighs" about 120 MB.
Since I will be traveling to Ukraine in May, he wants to know, but I don't
know the answer: is it possible to create a CD with his text on it, with a
"safety feature" so that a prospective publisher can READ, but not COPY
the text from this CD to his computer.
Would it be possible to copyright the text first?
I'm not sure, but I think in the USA anything that is created and can show
a date for this, is automatically copyrighted.
Seems like in this case, you (and the doctor) would just have to be careful
who you let see the CD.
If you're thinking of showing people samples of it (maybe?) how about
creating another CD with just samples, like the chapter names, what it/they
are about, and the overall idea of it?
That way, you could let people see this, without risking them copying the
entire text of the book.
This may not be what you mean, but it was what I thought of when I read it.
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