Can you sell altered books? Any copyright trouble?

People buy and sell used books all the time without any issues. I don't know why this would be any different.

Celeste

I'll give you the same answer I gave Jessica regarding antique postcards:

I've got a dozen (literally) "Victorian Calendars" which are collage works created by collecting images (from postcards and other works) and creating a new work of art with the assimulation of the images originally created by others. These calendars I have span more than a decade so there were no problems for Cynthia Hart and John Grossman (the artists who put their antique images to use). Creating collages have been done for centuries and have always come from taking past images by others to create a new art. And I believe you have seen other examples of this throughout the art world. The calendars were made for profit, many artists using these techniques also are "for profit". Altering the original art to suit your own artistic needs and that of itself makes it new. Another great example is the I Spy books Dane and children worldwide love so much. Walter Wick, that photographer, has images of postcards and other written, artistic materials (based upon the theme of his photograph) displayed, without problem. And there is NO reference, thanks, or acknowledgements to previous copyrights. Each image, each sentence as they stood alone were copyrighted but when mixed with other media they became an element of the new work, which then becomes copyrighted anew.. Here's a link to an I SPY image and here is a link to a CALENDAR image. And, lastly, altered books are sold all the time on eBay. My favorite seller is