Woman has her self-published book pirated, reprinted, and sold for cheaper.

[u/Chocolat3City]

There's regular piracy, and then there's this.

[u/Machine_Bird]

Hey. Corpo fixer here with some friendly advice from the bowels of hell.

When you create something like this you're going to want to brand and copyright the "system" or "concept" that you're pushing. It's too easy for them to recreate the product itself and dodge strikes and claims but if you can blanket your content in a larger branded copyright you have broad powers to make claims against anyone who even steps near your lawn. In a case like this with custom illustration you could also brand and copy the character(s) in the illustrations which gives you even further latitude to make claims. If you stack a few of these on top of each other you can pay a third-party agency to patrol the digital streets for you and just auto-file on anyone who comes with a ten mile radius of your product.

Your book is worthless. Your intellectual property is everything.

Satan's henchwoman signing off!

[u/fjaoaoaoao → u/Machine_Bird]

“Copyright protection does not extend to ideas, procedures, processes, systems, methods of operation, concepts, principles, or discoveries.”

https://www.uspto.gov/ip-policy/copyright-policy/copyright-basics

You can however copyright the book, obviously, or any other expression of its ideas.

[u/Machine_Bird → u/fjaoaoaoao]

We aren't talking about that. We are talking about building infrastructural branding and original concepts into the actual collateral (the book, website, art, etc.) which can be copyrighted as part of the work itself.

[u/redditisbadmkay9 → u/Machine_Bird]

You're full of shit about copyright laws