[Taxacom] copyright infringement by "Nabu Press"?

[Roger Burks]

Yes, from what I've seen posted by some other people, they specialize
in grabbing free e-copies of everything, and then selling them. This
means they could be downloading preview pages from Google Books and
printing those. Usually Google limits the number of visible pages on a
copyrighted work, but "Nabu" could be using some shady means of
getting an eventual whole copy from Google Books.

The important part about this is that Google, in addition to
Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble, might be interested to learn about
this.

Roger

On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 6:56 PM, Geoff Read <gread at actrix.gen.nz> wrote:
> Doug,
>
> Looks to me like they've taken hold of the Google books ecopy. That 1923
> notice is from Google's standard disclaimer.
>
> Your original work shows up for me in NZ in Google books as:
>
> http://books.google.co.nz/books?id=syg-AQAAIAAJ&q
>
> The url will be different for you in USA. And there is no ecopy available
> to me (because I am outside USA for one thing), but the work has been
> digitised by Google.
>
>
> Geoff Read
>
>
> On Thu, March 29, 2012 11:21 am, Doug Yanega wrote:
>> Hi, all. Apologies for crossposting, but this is a major
>> announcement. Just by chance, I noticed a publication on which I was
>> a co-author, the original citation for which is
>>
>> Engel, M.S., Brooks, R.W., Yanega, D. (1997) New genera and subgenera
>> of augochlorine bees (Hymenoptera: Halictidae). Scientific Papers,
>> Natural History Museum, University of Kansas 5: 1-21
>>
>> has been republished by someone called "Nabu Press" and is being sold
>> on Amazon.
>>
>> http://www.amazon.com/genera-subgenera-augochlorine-bees-Hymenoptera/dp/1179465210/ref=sr_1_22?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1332967903&sr=1-22
>> (with reversed authorship sequence)
>>
>> Their claim that this publication is from before 1923 is patently false.
>>
>
>
>
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