Question

Karl self-publishes a cookbook titled Hole Foods, in which he sets out recipes for donuts, Bundt cakes, tortellini, and other foods with holes. To publicize the book, Karl designs the website holefoods. Karl appropriates the key words of other cooking and cookbook sites with more frequent hits so that holefoods will appear in the same search engine results as the more popular sites. Has Karl done anything wrong? Explain your answer.

Answer 1

Solution and Explanation:

K has infringed the copyright law as most of the material on the internet is copyrighted and in order to transfer it online, it must be copied. When K uses appropriate key words of other cooking and cookbook sites, he is violating those copyrighted information of such companies or organizations or firms who have copyrighted their content or the material or either the software or it may also be the database information of such companies.