body: Bob wrote a solution manual for book X. (solution manual = a manual that presents solutions for some/all exercises of the book)
  
  
  Is Bob authorized to publish it, given that Bob hasn't written book X and doesn't own any right on it?
  
  
  Book X was written and published in the United States, and Bob plans to publish the solution manual in the United States (either on Internet or on paper, and either free of charge or with a charge).
  
  
  
title: Am I authorized to publish a solution manual for a book I haven't written?