Thesis for sale

About this episode

The episode discusses the issue of thesis theft and the challenges faced in prosecuting the offenders.

What do you do if somebody else publishes your thesis as a book? This is what happened to Andrew Vonasch . 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 and sought legal advice from Ursula Cheer . We confronted IngramSpark with this scam. They removed the theses from their system but made it practically impossible to prosecute the offenders. Transcript The transcript of the episode is available as a PDF. You can also follow the episode with subtitles through Descript . HRI-Podcast-Episode-034-Thesis-for-sale ISSN 2703-4054 Important Links: Cognitive Frugality Preserves Self-Regulatory Resources (Book on Amazon) Cognitive Miserliness Preserves the Self-Regulatory Resource (Andy’s thesis) Copyright and Trademark Infringement Claims at IngramSpark List of identified thesis theft Letter of complaint to IngramSpark First response from IngramSpark Second response from IngramSpark

People in this episode

Host: Christoph Bartneck

Guest: Andrew Vonasch

Topics covered

• thesis theft
• scams
• publishing
• legal issues
• intellectual property

Keywords

• thesis
• scam
• Amazon
• IngramSpark
• intellectual property
• legal advice
• publishing

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: IngramSpark

Books & works: Cognitive Frugality Preserves Self-Regulatory Resources, Cognitive Miserliness Preserves the Self-Regulatory Resource

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