[FRIAM] Illegal copies of your book

[Gillian Densmore]

Huh wow, thanks! ^_^

On Sun, Jul 5, 2020 at 10:21 AM Sarbajit Roy <sroy.mb at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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>>>
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>>>
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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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