Scanning text books – a new form of intellectual property theft?

IT-Analysis Has This Article on news ways to steal textbooks. They say textbooks are expensive and in areas where there is a velocity of discovery, through development and invention, they very quickly become redundant. Reference works are expensive. Academic and reference libraries are increasingly short of funds. There is the potential for small-scale copyright infringement.

Theft of e-books is unlikely to become a major form of economic theft in the way that downloading of music did, but e-books do illustrate that the scope of intellectual property theft is expanding.

March 4, 2003 by Uncategorized 0

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