By the way, I'm in the process of writing the book of The. The only word in it is 'the'. It will soon be copyrighted, and anyone who wishes to use my intellectual property will have to compensate me for it.


Fine by me. Copyright pertains to the work as a whole, not of it's constituent parts. So if I were to copy the exceedlingly boring book "The", by author Yz33d, then I would be infringing his copyright. However, I would be quite at liberty to quote portions of the book. But then again, I'd probably quote a portion of The Oxford English Dictionary instead, as it's a more interesting read. Maybe I'll quote the first word of their definition of magic.