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Re:High Prices Make Textbook ‘Piracy’ Acceptable to Most Stu... by xur17 on Sunday June 04, 2023 @01:29PM (#36187519)
I wonder if you can use 15% from each "edition" (since they're all basically the same anyways).
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Re:High Prices Make Textbook ‘Piracy’ Acceptable to Most Stu... by IshKebab on Sunday June 04, 2023 @01:42PM (#36187635)
No. The law generally doesn't stand for "aha, but what if I ..." tricks.
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Re:High Prices Make Textbook ‘Piracy’ Acceptable to Most Stu... by cultureswitch on Sunday June 04, 2023 @07:06PM (#36190406)
It's an interesting question though. Because the publishers will invariably argue that each edition is different. If the editions are different, then surely you can get 15% of each.
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Re:High Prices Make Textbook ‘Piracy’ Acceptable to Most Stu... by IshKebab on Monday June 05, 2023 @05:26PM (#36203935)
They only argue that they are different for face-saving reasons ("we're not milking you, honest!"). There's no legal reason they need to be different.
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