Re: Piracy in the Go industry.
Posted: Fri Jun 08, 2012 9:31 am
With go books it isn't necessarily piracy. Many go books are by Chinese and for Chinese and the Chinese copyright system is quite different from our own, especially in the mid 20th century, in fact you might be able to find them free on BaiDu. However, if you were to translate the book into to English and expect English copyrights to hold you may be in for a rude surprise. That being said if I am going to put the time into reading and studying the book. I buy the printed copy of it to have the reference. Anyway this could explain why the Koreans, Chinese, and Japanese prefer the magazines and journals, because they would be consistent employment for the authors.