From: Ann Shumelda Okerson <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2012 21:43:27 -0400

TED talks are very trendy these days, and often very interesting.
Here's an analytical treatment of the question of financial losses
through copyright piracy, a video whose URL has been making its way
around the internet in the last couple of days -- and I shamelessly
stole the link from one of these several lists:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZadCj8O1-0&feature=youtube_gdata_player

This tongue-in-cheek presentation makes me ask:  is copyright piracy
really a problem for scholarly publishers?  Subscription journals?
Monographs?

If so, how would we know how large the problem is?  More than that --
how would we know if it were big enough to worry about?  See, what is
true in the video is that a lot of the estimates of future loss are
based on a future that isn't known.  Anyhow, don't scholarly publishers,
at least of e-journals, expect some leakage and don't our subscription
prices pay for that?

Thoughts?  Ann Okerson