Although writers can copyright the text of novels or nonfiction books

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Although writers can copyright the text of novels or nonfiction books that they write, they cannot copyright their pieces' titles. Therefore, writers should be allowed to copyright any inscriptions that they include in their work.

Which of the following, if included as a premise in the argument above, would make its conclusion more logical?
 
  In most cases, text is less likely to be plagiarized than are titles.
 
  Copyright laws vary for different types of fiction and nonfiction.
 
  Writers are often more widely known for the titles of their books than for their books' contents.
 
  A book’s title is an essential part of that book.
 
  By the guidelines used to determine copyrights, inscriptions are more similar to text than to titles.

abhimahna · Answer

Allow to Copyright --> the text of novels or nonfiction books

Not Allow to Copyright --> Titles.

Conclusion: They can copyright inscriptions.

Pre Thinking: Inscriptions are not titles. They are similar to text or non fiction books.

In most cases, text is less likely to be plagiarized than are titles.  --> plagiarism is OFS. 
 
  Copyright laws vary for different types of fiction and nonfiction.  --> Fiction books are not discussed anywhere. 
 
  Writers are often more widely known for the titles of their books than for their books' contents.  --> How are authors known is OFS. 
 
  A book’s title is an essential part of that book.  --> Who said so? 
 
  By the guidelines used to determine copyrights, inscriptions are more similar to text than to titles.  --> As per our prethinking.

shaishav.53 · Answer

The question is to strengthen the premise that would make its conclusion more logical..
Not sure how E, because conclusion is writers  should be allowed to copyright any inscriptions  that they include in their work.
IMO - D as book's title is an essential part of that book, and an inscription. Hence, it should be allowed to be copyrighted.

Feb2024 · Answer

Hello Experts  KarishmaB   MartyMurray   CrackVerbal   IanStewart   gmatophobia   chetan2u

Isn't the answer given, i.e., Option E opposite of what we are looking for.

Should not Option E be saying  inscriptions are more similar to titles than to text , and so writers should be allowed to copyright any inscriptions that they include in their work.

KarishmaB · Answer

The law is that text you can copyright, but not the title. 
If the inscription is similar to text and not title, then you should be able to copyright it. 
So this is how the author can conclude that "writers should be allowed to copyright any inscriptions that they include in their work." After all, inscription is like text and the writers are allowed to copyright text.

vallequalle · Answer

Can you elaborate this further? I dont quite get it

AbhishekP220108 · Answer

Hi  vallequalle  let me try to help

Although I got this wrong too, since I didn't look more closely and assumed inscription as writings of novel and as text of novel is copyrighted, inscription is also copyrighted but I was wrong. Lets look at the Argument

Although writers can copyright the text of novels or nonfiction books that they write, they cannot copyright their pieces' titles.- Now lets suppose A novel has 2 part Title and Texts, Text can be copyrighted but titles cant.

Therefore, writers should be allowed to copyright any inscriptions that they include in their work.-Author concluded any inscription should be allowed to copyrighted which is the third part of novel.

Now think Author shared us the details about text and title but then suddenly shifted his conclusion to something else. Since we cant counter the premise the first line and there is gap in between thats what we need to find. We have to look for a connection between inscription text and title. Lets evaluate

Which of the following, if included as a premise in the argument above, would make its conclusion more logical?

In most cases, text is less likely to be plagiarized than are titles.- Plagiarised not helping eliminate

Copyright laws vary for different types of fiction and nonfiction.-Laws for fiction and non fiction not helping

Writers are often more widely known for the titles of their books than for their books' contents.-Known or not for what again not helping

A book’s title is an essential part of that book.-Ok title is an essential part, what about inscription? NOT HELPING

By the guidelines used to determine copyrights, inscriptions are more similar to text than to titles.- Inscription are more similar to text than to title, then they should be allowed too right, because if they are not similar to text, then conclusion will fall or doubted right. Read this option E placing it before the conclusion. That will make more sense

Hope this helps

egmat · Answer

Hey vallequalle,

happy to break this down further!

Think of the argument as sorting things into two buckets:

Bucket 1  (CAN be copyrighted): Text of books
 Bucket 2  (CANNOT be copyrighted): Titles of books

Now the conclusion says: Inscriptions should go into  Bucket 1  (can be copyrighted).

But wait — the argument never tells us WHY inscriptions belong in  Bucket 1  rather than  Bucket 2 . That's the gap. The author just jumps to the conclusion without connecting inscriptions to either bucket.

Now look at  Answer E :  'By the guidelines used to determine copyrights, inscriptions are more similar to text than to titles.'

This is the   missing bridge  . It tells us inscriptions are like text ( Bucket 1  stuff), not like titles ( Bucket 2  stuff). So if text can be copyrighted, and inscriptions resemble text, then it logically follows that inscriptions should also be copyrightable.

Why not the other answers? 
-  A  talks about plagiarism, not copyright rules.
-  B  talks about fiction vs. nonfiction differences — irrelevant to inscriptions.
-  C  argues titles are important, which if anything would support copyrighting titles, not inscriptions.
-  D  says titles are essential to books — again, this doesn't help us figure out where inscriptions belong.

Only  E  directly answers the question: Which bucket do inscriptions belong in?

Key takeaway:  When a conclusion treats something as belonging to Category X, look for the premise that explicitly connects that thing to Category X rather than Category Y.

Answer: E

vallequalle · Answer

Hey  AbhishekP220108  and egmat,

thank you very much for the detailed explanations!

Both really helped!

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