A group of global publishers is engaged in a legal row in India over the photocopying of books and journals – a move seen by opponents as an attack on the constitutional right to education.
Last year, Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press and Taylor & Francis filed a lawsuit against Delhi University and a small photocopying shop near its campus, claiming the shop’s practice of compiling bound collections of extracts of their publications – as part of a contract with the university – is a violation of copyright law.
