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- URL: https://x.com/EricLengyel/status/1897051651862880478
- Author: Eric Lengyel (@EricLengyel)
- Posted: 2025-03-04 22:28:53
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1/ @EricLengyel
Seriously?
2/ @EricLengyel
To clarify the purpose of this post, I’ll point out that book titles cannot be copyrighted or trademarked, so they could have even included the “3D”, and it would have been legal. This is a matter of professionalism, or lack thereof.
3/ @EricLengyel
To clarify further, I’m really just making an observation. It’s not my intent to slight the author or her book’s content (which I have not read), and I’m not making any accusations of plagiarism.
4/ @EricLengyel
My only implication is that it would have shown greater professionalism to choose a title that’s a bit different from a well-known book in the field.
5/ @EricLengyel
I can imagine a scenario in which the author had actually chosen a different title, but then the (known to be shady) publisher said “Hey, no, let’s use this title almost exactly matching a popular book so we get accidental purchases.”
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