La primera vez que fui a Perú fue en enero de 1991. Tuve la oportunidad de visitar una de las mejores y más coquetas universidades de Lima.
Una de las cosas que más me llamó la atención fue notar que la gran mayoría de los libros de texto que circulaban eran copias piratas locales. También se usaban fotocopias, pero en lugar de sacarlas de las ediciones legales de los libros, como en mi universidad en Argentina, eran fotocopias de reproducciones ilegales incluidas en libros truchos, impresos en papel de almacén con encuadernaciones lamentables.
Por las noticias y lo que me cuentan amigos y conocidos, Argentina está mostrando todos los signos de un país que se tercermundiza a pasos acelerados. Incluido el auge de los libros truchos.
"Majul, García Márquez y Ari Paluch están entre los autores más afectados."
ReplyDeleteNo deja de haber una justicia divina.
Blogo, lo mismo para esto :
ReplyDelete"Ya en 2003 Ediciones B, Planeta, Sudamericana y De la Flor habían denunciado la circulación de ejemplares aprócrifos de libros de Jorge Lanata, Jorge Bucay y Quino. "
No entiendo por que se quejan, si al falsificar Mafalda y privar a Quino de sus royalties le están haciendo un favor, el lucro personal es perverso y no genera solidaridad social.
Ahora, los comentarios de algunos lectores en ese artículo son argentos 100% full full con AA y palanca al piso con una calavera.
During my stay at La Universidad Del Salvador I noticed the same thing. The fotocopiadores in the street of the university had actually specialized in copias truchas of the books used in class.
ReplyDeleteIf all these students were to buy the original version they wouldnt be able to afford their education. They can hardly keep up with the extremely expensive cuota of 'la facu'.
Argentineans can always begin by reducing the exorbitant taxes and other tariffs on imported textbooks. University education is never cheap.
ReplyDeleteYou're completely right, that would make a huge difference. I just wanted to say that todays practices are completly understandable given the current context.
ReplyDeleteAlthough I must admit the same things happen here in Holland. Tuition fees at a decent university are about 2000 USD per year(!) and a majority of the students copy instead of buy books...
I am sure you agree that $2000 per year for a university education is a symbolic price. It does not even begin to cover the cost of providing the service. In Buenos Aires there are private secondary schools more expensive than that.
ReplyDeleteThese 2000USD covered about 1/3rd of the costs of my specific education. My comment was to illustrate that the practices encountered in perú and argentina also take place in the more developed world. :)
ReplyDeleteArgentines and Peruvians are poor. What’s the excuse in The Netherlands?
ReplyDeleteTo save money. In many cases they're encouraged by their professors to do so.
ReplyDeleteVery interesting, are the professors who encourage photocopying textbooks actually the authors of the textbooks?
ReplyDeleteI doubt it.
When I was in school, we used mostly photocopies. Textbooks were very expensive and almost nonexistent. Most of them were imported. The situation in Peru was considerably worse. They were photocopying textbooks which, in turn, were locally-made illegal copies of the original textbooks. The students were actually robbing the robbers.
Actually, 90% of the texts I used in universtiy were from professors that didn't lecture there (so my profs didn't care about us 'stealing' intellectual property).
ReplyDeleteMost of the professors that did use their own materials didn't care about us copying their books, because they said that they made so little money on it that it wasn't worth convincing us to buy the original (one of the was a marxist anyway and didn't believe in ownership of intellectual property).
Very altruistic indeed. I was aware that this is a very common practice in countries like France. I did not know it was also normal in The Netherlands. It is not the case at all here. Students use textbooks and pay a fee every year, included in tuition, to cover copyrights when using photocopies.
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