Thesis for sale

What do you do if somebody else publishes your thesis as a book? This is what happened to Andrew Vonasch (profiles.cante...) . Together, we investigated this new type of scam. We discovered a flood of stolen theses and the thieves’ method to publish them on Amazon and through other resellers. I interviewed Richard Elliott (www.bbk.ac.uk/...) and sought legal advice from Ursula Cheer (profiles.cante...) . We confronted IngramSpark (www.ingramspar...) with this scam. They removed the theses from their system but made it practically impossible to prosecute the offenders.
Transcript
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HRI-Podcast-Episode-034-Thesis-for-sale (www.human-robo...)
ISSN 2703-4054
Important Links:
• Cognitive Frugality Preserves Self-Regulatory Resources (www.amazon.com...) (Book on Amazon)
• Cognitive Miserliness Preserves the Self-Regulatory Resource (repository.lib...) (Andy’s thesis)
• Copyright and Trademark Infringement Claims at IngramSpark (www.ingramcont...)
• List of identified thesis theft (docs.google.co...)
• Letter of complaint to IngramSpark (www.human-robo...)
• First response from IngramSpark (www.human-robo...)
• Second response from IngramSpark (www.human-robo...)