What can be copyrighted and what amounts to infringement?

Talking law/ WITH SUDI wandabusi

My last week's article had me receiving calls from very unlikely quarters. I had to contend with eloquent admonitions from my learned seniors as well as frantic calls from innocent book authors wondering whether what had been written in that article was indeed true. The statement accompanying the picture in that article was a result of an editorial error; it is not true that books can be patented.