User talk:Raihanchowdhury

Are you the author of "Quotes By Raihan: My Story In My Words!"

I submitted a review of it, on Amazon:

While the author states these quotes were meaningful, to him, he neglected to attribute any of them to their original authors. Hmmm. Surely that is not respectful, to the original authors? Maybe it shows a cultural difference, but I found some of the quotes in the free preview to be barely more meaingful than gibberish. Others were of mild value, but I can't imagine paying even five cents for this collection of these quotes. Note: the author is currently requesting fifty dollars. Respected authors do, occasionally, publish lists, or other works they did not themselves write. But they add value to the work created by others by annotating that other material, or organizing it. The US Supreme Court ruled, in Fiest v. Rural, that "collections of fact" are not copyrightable. This court case reached the Supreme Court when one small phone company sued another small phone company for copying the names, addresses and phone numbers from a small phone book they had published. Other countries, like Australia, do support "sweat of the brow" copyright claims, from those who spent time compliling a list. But US law applies to material published by amazon.com. The exception the SCOTUS ruling provided was for lists where the list compiler added value in organizing the list in a creative way. IANAL, but, if the author of this book had added a paragraph for each quote, with a funny or poignant story of how he first heard the quote, or an incident from his life, when he really learned the value of the quote, I believe that would be copyrightable, and might be worth reading.