Plagiarism

[OleDakotaJoe]

There is an individual on Udemy, who is selling the content of this project, by READING IT VERBATIM.

Kody Amour, on udemy https://www.udemy.com/course/discrete/

[oscarlevin]

Thanks for the heads up. Another student also sent me an email about this today. If you happen to be in the same course, and your professor has asked you to purchase the course, you might want to make them aware of this as well, and that I, as the author of the textbook, do not have any sort of agreement with Kody Amour or udemy.

[OleDakotaJoe]

Basically they are orally reciting your book on camera, and in order to access the 'course' you have to pay for it. I'm not sure what kind of licensing you are using, but he may be actually breaking the law depending on the license. Also, he does 'credit' the book that you've wrotten but simply crediting the source does not mean your ok to plagiarize. Btw, he has had over 21000 students at at least 12 bucks a student... you do the math Thanks, Steven Sheaves

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________________________________ From: Oscar Levin <notifications@github.com> Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2020 12:23:08 PM To: OpenMathBooks/openmathbooks.github.io <openmathbooks.github.io@noreply.github.com> Cc: OleDakotaJoe <Stevendakotasheaves@gmail.com>; Author <author@noreply.github.com> Subject: Re: [OpenMathBooks/openmathbooks.github.io] Plagiarism (#1) Thanks for the heads up. Another student also sent me an email about this today. If you happen to be in the same course, and your professor has asked you to purchase the course, you might want to make them aware of this as well, and that I, as the author of the textbook, do not have any sort of agreement with Kody Amour or udemy. — You are receiving this because you authored the thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub<#1 (comment)>, or unsubscribe<https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/APT5EPOICADUXMEPDX7KERTSHN57ZANCNFSM4RXZ2ZAQ>.

[OleDakotaJoe]

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[oscarlevin]

I saw that video too. I don't know if there is (or should be) attribution on each video. The book is licensed under the Creative Commons CC-BY-SA license. This requires derivative works to include attribution, and, more important here, to be shared with the same license. So as far as I can see, the videos are violating the license. What to do about it is the open question.

Again, thank you for letting me know about this.

[OleDakotaJoe]

I did later get into another section on the course and see that he is using another source of material, however I have not continued studying using this course so I am unsure of whether or not the plagiarism continues throughout. Thank you for your time. Thanks, Steven Sheaves

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________________________________ From: Oscar Levin <notifications@github.com> Sent: Friday, September 25, 2020 10:04:54 AM To: OpenMathBooks/openmathbooks.github.io <openmathbooks.github.io@noreply.github.com> Cc: OleDakotaJoe <Stevendakotasheaves@gmail.com>; Author <author@noreply.github.com> Subject: Re: [OpenMathBooks/openmathbooks.github.io] Plagiarism (#1) I saw that video too. I don't know if there is (or should be) attribution on each video. The book is licensed under the Creative Commons CC-BY-SA license. This requires derivative works to include attribution, and, more important here, to be shared with the same license. So as far as I can see, the videos are violating the license. What to do about it is the open question. Again, thank you for letting me know about this. — You are receiving this because you authored the thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub<#1 (comment)>, or unsubscribe<https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/APT5EPJHDXN62DVWPPTULA3SHSWRNANCNFSM4RXZ2ZAQ>.