[Taxacom] copyright infringement by "Nabu Press"?

[Stephen Thorpe]

note that the book is available freely on BHL: http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/22641
 
if Nabu are selling what is already free, then I suspect it is just a caveat emptor situation, rather than a copyright infringement
 
would anybody like to buy a litre of rain water ... just $20 ??? :)
 
Stephen


________________________________
From: Geoff Read <gread at actrix.gen.nz>
To: Doug Yanega <dyanega at ucr.edu> 
Cc: taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu 
Sent: Thursday, 29 March 2012 11:56 AM
Subject: Re: [Taxacom] copyright infringement by "Nabu Press"?

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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