[tylorr]

What about if I bought a book from a bookstore then I wrote in the margins or highlighted some text and then sold it to used bookstore?

[pbhjpbhj]

In my personal opinion the modification is insubstantial so for copyright purposes you haven't created a derivative work. There are probably ways you could make it substantial but how would the rights holders ever know. It might technically be a tort but there's no damage; what would a rights holder win?

[nybble41]

> It might technically be a tort but there's no damage; what would a rights holder win?

Statutory damages.

Which highlights the essential flaw in allowing statutory damages.