[FRIAM] Illegal copies of your book

[Sarbajit Roy]

Dear Gillian

It's not an unpopular opinion at all.

The High Court at New Delhi, India considered these issues and said it's
perfectly legal for a teacher to PHOTOCOPY or REPRODUCE chapters of
over-priced/unaffordable/expensive foreign textbooks for the benefit of
their students, AND that no royalty is to be paid to the book publishers.
The exceptionally well reasoned decision was upheld by the Supreme Court of
India after the book publishers withdrew their appeals.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rameshwari_Photocopy_Service_shop_copyright_case

So if you know anybody needing photocopies (2 cents per page of expensive
books accessible to our vast library of PDFs and DJVUs, I would be happy to
have them as my student ;-)

Sarbajit Roy
New Delhi, India


On Sun, Jul 5, 2020 at 7:24 AM Gillian Densmore <gil.densmore at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I'll put this out their as I suspect a unpopular opinion. It's be been my
> unfortunate experience teachers want ridiculously expensive specialty
> books. The most egregious was some prof for a management class that thought
> it'd be a good idea to drop 700 dollars on a book. Most of the class except
> some brown-noser agreed. He did EVENtUALLY relent to do case-studies
> inlue of the book. IMO I got more out of  reading and writing about
> actually cases of successful and unsuccessful management from real life
> than a 700 dollar book
> When people wonder why books get pirated. That's probably why.
>
> On Sat, Jul 4, 2020 at 6:03 PM Edward Angel <angel at cs.unm.edu> wrote:
>
>> Yes. libgen is a mirror site for libgen.io <http://lingen.io> that has
>> everything on it. It gets taken down every once in a while. They lost a
>> suit from the publishers but being located in Eastern Europe that doesn’t
>> help. When I first went to the site, it asked me to turn off my add blocker
>> so THEY could make some money. Then I looked at their donation tab and the
>> only way to donate was via bitcoin or an Eastern European credit card.
>>
>> Students tell me they all know about the site.
>>
>> Ed
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>> On Jul 4, 2020, at 5:58 PM, Roger Frye <frye.roger at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Ed,
>> FYI: The latest edition that I see on the Israeli version of the pirate
>> site (libgen.is) is the 7th.
>> -Roger
>>
>>
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