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