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

[Peter Coombe]

On 28 January 2011 13:56, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.