[CHA]Chin Med Textbook -ethics

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part of the solution may b for every aom school to hire a real librarian. grads

are not experts in copyright law, ethics or any library science. a real

librarian, at least part time, would oversee legal issues, along with other

matters. this would bring outside checks and increased accountability the

school. lynn

 

wrote:

Let's all agree that there are many separate issues here. The first is really

not open for

debate and that is the piracy - theft that has happened. At one school I heard

that

students were " sharing PDF's " where I simply thought no illegal books or DVD's

were

circulating. So much for my naivety. So piracy is an issue that is simply of

economic and

ethical forces. I don't think anyone disagrees with the bottom line here.

 

When I put a price on the Point Location DVD we made it was higher than what it

could

have been. But I factored in the piracy concerns. Indeed I was naive enough to

think " old-

school " that we would have a library rate, one that would allow the librarian to

make

multiple copies. Well of course, at one school, the librarian who was also a

recent grad,

trotted down to the bookstore and bought the cheaper version and then made

copies for

the shelf. We sold a few at that school at first, but haven't for at that school

for more than

a year. All my sales are through Redwing and I thank Bob for that.