2 May 2013 University World News
An Indian court has thrown out an attempt by a student organisation to allow private campus-based photocopying shops to create bound, near-complete copies of course books, in a case that may have set a national precedent.
On 25 April, the Delhi High Court rejected an appeal by the Association of Students for Equitable Access to Knowledge, or ASEAK, to overturn an August 2012 decision preventing a photocopy shop in the University of Delhi’s school of economics from undertaking this work.
Specifically, it had been told not to make course packs including a ‘substantial portion’ of books published by Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press and Taylor & Francis.
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Anupama Ramakrishnan, an MPhil student at DSE and a member of ASEAK, claimed that publishers were treating India as a cash cow.
“For these international publishers, India has become a new market. They do not want to invest any intellectual energy in producing new books here, and just want to make money from their old books.” She claimed that any restriction on photocopying books would damage the rights of students to an education. -more-
“For these international publishers, India has become a new market. They do not want to invest any intellectual energy in producing new books here, and just want to make money from their old books.” She claimed that any restriction on photocopying books would damage the rights of students to an education. -more-
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