[Foundation-l] BBC "5 Live Investigates" on Books LLC, Sunday night 9pm UTC

[David Gerard]

On 28 January 2011 13:28, SlimVirgin <slimvirgin at gmail.com> wrote:

> I think there's a sense of annoyance among writers whose work is being
> copied that the books are so expensive -- sometimes around $50 for a
> 10,000-word article -- and that the ads for them on Amazon don't make clear
> enough that they're on Wikipedia for free.
> The ones I'm thinking of, Alphascript Publishing, give the names of three
> editors as though they might have written or edited the material, when in
> fact it's lifted word for word.
> Also, as you said, we've seen editors try to use them as sources, not
> realizing they're in a hall of mirrors.


Yeah. The problem is there's no direct action we can really take
without hampering the good reasons for reuse of our material. Or just
scaring people off. I think the best we can do is raise awareness.
This will do that, slightly.


- d.