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I happened to notice that different books published by Springer sometimes have slightly different names listed next to the copyright © symbol. … I would expect the name printed on the copyright page to be standardised so I found it surprising to see (what looks like) inconsistencies and typos. …

But if answers from this site literally become integrated into books, games, movies, apps and so on, how does the user of the answer avoid any claim to copyright infringement? …

I've been alerted to a number of flazx links on stackoverflow that link to rapidshare downloads of copyright material (i.e. e-books). … Since the content is copyright, my instinct is that these rapidshare links are simply illegal. …

of going back and revising all my popular Internet-published Guru of the Week (GotW) articles, which along with my traditional magazine articles were eventually assembled into my three Exceptional C++ books … Are you okay with me posting copyrighted content (I would probably want to include a small copyright notice on every GotW problem or solution)? …

I think GotW installments would be terrific on StackOverflow. It would have to fall under the cc-wiki license, because we make dumps of the site available regularly, and people who consume those dumps …

But other than that, if you follow the attribution rules in the CC-BY-SA license and don't violate SE's copyright on the design, you can do this today. … Turning Q&A content into publishable books involves a fair bit of work. …

Just so that you have context for this request, if you're wondering "who the heck is this Herb Sutter guy?" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herb_Sutter Some sample "Guru of the Week" posts: http://www …

I think the format will need to change. In particular, I'd like to see one question per question, in order not to set a bad example. If we allow multiple questions, then there will be someone who says …

The tag wiki for copyright states: The copyright tag is for issues relating to the creation and/or display of copyright information. … The tag won't be blacklisted; 331 questions is nothing compared to say the books or homework question, which is a consistent problem. …

How about posting a single new GotW question as an SO question and seeing how the C++ community there responds? Asking questions about whether it is acceptable on Meta is all very well, but it's how i …

Personally, I'd love to see this. However, it does have to fit SO, rather than changing SO to fit GotW. SO has no threaded discussion, except somewhat in the comments. The answers deliberately chan …

For example, I love reading books. When I know something that I've done, it can be self-contained. … However, when the solution is in a chapter of a book or in content that can have copyright, I must add a hyperlink. …

I say go for it. But keep in mind, most users don't read meta, won't know what's going on, and no amount of disclaimers will help with that. Every post will still be vetted by pretty much the same …

Any copyright notices would be removed (by editors), similarly to how greetings and closings are removed, since they are redundant and contrary to SO convention. …

Could you show us some samples? It's an interesting idea, if you can manage to trim each article down to a question for people to answer. Could you take a few of the GotW postings, make them into SO …