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Oct 21, 2019
9:31:02pm

Northwest Cougar All-American

Is the professor the author?

Seems like I had a lot of professor authored textbooks.

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Northwest Cougar

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Thoughts on this scenario I just read about online? A professor requires an absurdly expensive textbook for a class. One

scootsy Internet Thief

10/21/19 9:24pm

Is the professor the author?

Northwest Cougar

10/21/19 9:31pm

Not in this case, but I saw that frequently as well.

scootsy

10/21/19 9:31pm

They have each others backs. Doesn’t surprise me

mudpupper

10/21/19 9:44pm

Depends on the Professor

CougCoug3

10/21/19 10:10pm

Do you believe in copyright law? The founding fathers did.

rcbyufan

10/21/19 10:12pm

That’s hardly the point of this. But yes, I do believe in Copyright law.

scootsy

10/21/19 11:00pm

Isn't that the issue at hand?

The Dark Knight

10/22/19 6:08am

The true villian professors would write their own text book and put assignment

vegasnative

10/21/19 10:14pm

^^^Doesn't believe in capitalism. Just join the Bernie train & get it over with.

rcbyufan

10/21/19 10:20pm

Right. Reducing choice and prohibiting the free market from functioning is pure

vegasnative

10/21/19 11:01pm

Your fake brand of capitalism doesn't exist on planet earth. And it certainly

rcbyufan

10/21/19 11:48pm

Right. It's never ever existed at all. Okay. And nice random reference to the

vegasnative

10/22/19 12:06am

That’s exactly how my American Heritage textbook was

rainorsnow

10/21/19 10:23pm

That's crazy that he would change the whole course.

Great38

10/21/19 10:23pm

Aren't we fighting with China supposedly over this very issue, IP protection?

chilango

10/21/19 10:54pm

No. The point of this wasn’t to justify piracy. And that’s not the issue at hand. Why would the prof change the text?

scootsy

10/21/19 10:59pm

To fight piracy.

chilango

10/21/19 11:02pm

If it were my class, and I didn't do anything I would feel complicit to piracy

The Dark Knight

10/22/19 6:09am

Let’s try to look at this from an author’s perspective

buffgato

10/22/19 8:03am

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