Making a website legal?

Ok here is my problem... My friend has a website (forum based) with close to 6,000 members. He wants to add google ads on to his forums but he is worried that his site is illegal. His site is basicly a massive cheat sheet. It has answers to a published work book. Does anyone know of a way to make this site legal or if it is illegal? Thanks.

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Can you explain more the "answers to a published work" thing?

The book is a workbook that has sentance and other forms of questions that you have to fill in with a word. This website lists the words that are correctly suppost to be in the blanks. It does not give the questions or the name of the book.

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In that case I don't think that you have any problem.

Even if this was a site with reviews about this book it would be legal, but you can allways ask a lawyer about that.

On the other hand if your concern is google, then just go for it, they wont even mention it

well see this is my main issue...

Page 2 of the book reads

All rights reserved. no part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a database or retrieval system, or transmitted in any form by any means, eletronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of [Company Name]. Copyright infringers will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law and may be liable for damages of up to $150,000. report all violations, in confidence, to the publisher at the address shown below.

If I don't include the questions or any of the section titles how can they say it is copyright infringment. Can you really copyright random words in the english lanuage, I don't think you can (that's why I'm asking).

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That means that you can't copy parts of the book. It doesnt mean that you can't write about it.

hmm true. Im not really writing about it though. Im pretty much just listing the answers so do you think thats safe if i dont mention the company name or any of the section titles?

exactly, and since you write the answers on the site I guess this means they are not in the book, so you are not copying anything from the book

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hmm true. Im not really writing about it though. Im pretty much just listing the answers so do you think thats safe if i dont mention the company name or any of the section titles?

I guess it is. And after all internet is so big.... I mean there are real scams out there that none hurts them, why to hurt you even if this was almost illegal?

This publisher really hates websites that have the answers to this series of books. They have shut down dozens of websites that have had these answers. Which is kind of scaring me wondering if they will get the site my friend runs.   

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I don't understand how this can be done, but anyway laws are different in every place of the world, so I guess the best thing to do, is to ask a lawyer about this.

hmm all boils down to the greedy lawyers! lol aight thanks guys. If i get the site working, or not working, I post an update 

My first question would be where did the answers come from.

Is there some sort of answer key book they were lifted from? or Are the answers researched and written by your friend?

The answer to that will greatly impact the legality of the page even if it is only showing the answers.

The answers were gathered from several websites that had the answers on them before they were closed. I would have to say the answers were more than likely stolen from the answer books. However, my friend didn't steal them.

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