Copyright question

[Frederick Muller <fmuller@SATURN.PLANET.NET>]

Someone asked me this and I didn't know.
    On a local cable station there was a program on children's
literature where someone read a whole children's book on the air -
but not accurately and modified somethings.  They had two questions.
    1. Can someone read a whole book on the air (local cable channel)
without the author's permission?
    2. Can they modify it during the reading (I am assuming the book
was not a folk-tale?)
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Frederick Muller
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