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I submitted the following comment to The Beneblog post at 8FEB 2012 and once again it is in Moderator Approval Purgatory.

The remarks in the blog were based on the plenary address delivered by JRF at the WBU General Assembly in Bangkok, Thailand NOV 2012 http://benetech.blogspot.com/2013/02/increasing-accessible-publishing.html (Begin submitted comment.) The following is from the IIPA Special 301 report on Thailand as in contrast to your 30 JAN 2013 comment that "we see only about 10 instances annually of unauthorized copies AVAILABLE ON THE WEB". Book Piracy, Including Production for Export and Unauthorized Photocopying: The book and journal publishing industry continues to face the following problems in Thailand: print piracy, illegal photocopying, unauthorized translations, and online piracy, though the latter is not yet a significant threat. Of these, unauthorized photocopying of educational materials, in and around universities, remains the predominant form of book piracy in Thailand. Copy shops continue to copy books for students, increasingly on a made to order basis to avoid keeping infringing stock on site. Lecturers are culpable too, compiling course packs of works without permission from the publisher, with some producing unauthorized translations of works, inserting the translated material into the compilation, and claiming authorship. Other pirated materials include novels, travel guides, history books and foreign language newspapers. Various private institutes in Thailand provide illegally reprinted Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) materials to their students. http://www.iipa.com/rbc/2012/2012SPEC301THAILAND.PDF pages 108-109 (End submitted comment) Note: As of 6 PM PST 9FEB2013 the above blog still show No Comments BTW I may soon visit and take some pictures of a row of the copy shops near a major University in Thailand as in the IIPA description where there will be stacks of illicitly copied textbooks that have been ordered by the students. Update: Well I couldnt get a shot of the actual textbook copies without getting closer than I would be comfortable in doing these people might not like having

their pictures took. However, I have often seen the copies placed on tables on the sidewalk for collating and binding, etc., when the big orders come in. The pictures are a row of shop house copy centers directly across the street from a non-Bangkok campus with about 35,000 students.

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