<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div><div>Dear Gillian<br><br></div>It's not an unpopular opinion at all.<br></div><br>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.<br></div>The exceptionally well reasoned decision was upheld by the Supreme Court of India after the book publishers withdrew their appeals.<br><br><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rameshwari_Photocopy_Service_shop_copyright_case">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rameshwari_Photocopy_Service_shop_copyright_case</a><br><br></div>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 ;-)<br><br></div>Sarbajit Roy<br></div>New Delhi, India<br><div><div><div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Jul 5, 2020 at 7:24 AM Gillian Densmore <<a href="mailto:gil.densmore@gmail.com">gil.densmore@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">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<div>When people wonder why books get pirated. That's probably why.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Jul 4, 2020 at 6:03 PM Edward Angel <<a href="mailto:angel@cs.unm.edu" target="_blank">angel@cs.unm.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div>Yes. libgen is a mirror site for <a href="http://lingen.io" target="_blank">libgen.io</a> 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.<div><br></div><div>Students tell me they all know about the site.<br><div><br></div><div>Ed<br><div>
<span style="border-collapse:separate;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><span style="border-collapse:separate;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><div>_______________________</div><div><br>Ed Angel<br><br></div><div>Founding Director, Art, Research, Technology and Science Laboratory (ARTS Lab)<br>Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, University of New Mexico<br><br>1017 Sierra Pinon</div><div>Santa Fe, NM 87501<br>505-984-0136 (home)<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span> <span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><a href="mailto:angel@cs.unm.edu" target="_blank">angel@cs.unm.edu</a></div><div>505-453-4944 (cell) <span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><a href="http://www.cs.unm.edu/~angel" target="_blank">http://www.cs.unm.edu/~angel</a><br></div></span></span>
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<div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Jul 4, 2020, at 5:58 PM, Roger Frye <<a href="mailto:frye.roger@gmail.com" target="_blank">frye.roger@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br><div><div dir="ltr">Ed,<div>FYI: The latest edition that I see on the Israeli version of the pirate site (<a href="http://libgen.is/" target="_blank">libgen.is</a>) is the 7th.</div><div>-Roger</div></div>
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