Using a Book for Software Development

Question

I have a tax study book for which I have paid, and it says in it that all rights are reserved, it is not to be copied, etc., including personal use, even parts of it, without permission. Is it permitted to translate sections from what is written in the book into formulas in order to build tax software?

Answer

Greetings,
It is permitted to write a program according to what is written in the book.
[The author of the book only has ownership over the material itself, not over things that the reader understands or learns from it. The computerized formula that is written according to the book is not a copy of the book, but rather the cleverness and the invention of the programmer that is built upon the written material].

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