INDIAN COURT REJECTS STUDENTS’ BID TO ALLOW PRIVATE COPY SHOPS TO PRODUCE COURSE PACKS WITHOUT PAYING PUBLISHERS
April 1st, 2013
An Indian court has thrown out an attempt by a students’ organisation to allow private campus-based photocopying shops to create bound near-complete copies of course books. In a case setting a nation-wide precedent, Delhi High Court (on April 25) rejected an appeal from the Association of Students for Equitable Access to Knowledge (ASEAK) for the court to overturn an August 2012 decision preventing a photocopy shop in the University of Delhi’s Delhi School of Economics (DSE) from undertaking this work. Specifically, it had been told not to make course ...
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