Dec 01 2024 40 mins 2
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.
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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
