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by merlyn (Sage) on Dec 07, 2003 at 17:09 UTC
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No, they're not allowed to do that. For O'Reilly books, email infringement@ora.com, and they'll use the legal powers-that-be to cut these guys off. Since that's a legal-team's address, they're always happy to have a new place to nail. {grin}
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Re: Online Perl books
by simonm (Vicar) on Dec 07, 2003 at 17:01 UTC
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Does anyone know if they're allowed to do this?
I'd guess not, based on the copyright statement: "This CD-ROM is intended for use by one individual. As such, you may make copies for your own personal use. However, you may not provide copies to others, or make this reference library available to others over a LAN or other network."
Edited by davido: disabled link to a website that violated US Copyright laws by electronically distributing O'Reilly books without authorization.
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Re: Online Perl books
by jweed (Chaplain) on Dec 07, 2003 at 19:26 UTC
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Just FYI, some complete and perfectly legal non-O'Rielly perl books can be found at http://learn.perl.org.
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Re: Online Perl books
by davido (Cardinal) on Dec 07, 2003 at 17:10 UTC
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It is expressly disallowed in the O'Reilly copyright statement. What's more, some of the authors of those (and other O'Reilly) books mentioned are known to be strong contributors to the Perlmonks site's daily activity. They don't deserve to have their copyright violated, and their intellectual property freely distributed without permission, and without compensation.
Such sites pop up from time to time. And not surprisingly, such sites disappear from time to time as well.
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Hi davido, you mentioned that several authors are actively participating in the daily activities at Perl Monks. I know that merlyn is one of them, 'cause I got one of his books. Do you happen to know any others? Thanks.
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It all depends on what you mean by author. I assume that you mean that they have written a book. Here the ones that I can remember right now, in no particular order and definitely missing some: Dominus, Chromatic, davorg, spudzeppelin... Hmm, this list seems a bit short. Considering that merlyn and TheDamian were already mentioned by others, who am I missing?
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Re: Online Perl books
by zentara (Archbishop) on Dec 07, 2003 at 19:50 UTC
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FWIW, you can get the real cd, of that early version, on ebay or
half.com for basically the shipping cost. It's the best value on the internet. Search ebay.com for "Perl CD Bookshelf" | [reply] |
Re: Online Perl books
by Anonymous Monk on Dec 07, 2003 at 17:06 UTC
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OReilly doesn't like that, and it's illegal in US, but in Russia they can do whatever they want | [reply] |
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Well the other one is in russia, but it appears the "programming perl" is no longer on it, despite the link.
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Re: Online Perl books
by talexb (Chancellor) on Dec 08, 2003 at 19:01 UTC
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I appreciate that you deleted the links to the copyrighted material, but what made you post those links in the first place? O'Reilly's been very good to those of us in high tech workplaces, and the links you posted are clear copyright violations.
No, in case you are wondering, I did not downvote your node -- but in future, please don't link to copyrighted material from this site unless you have permission from the copyright holder.
--t. alex
Life is short: get busy!
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