2012 FRM books for sale. Please help!

[David Harper CFA FRM]

Hi Hend,

I hope you are doing well too! (my final paragraph above, fwiw, was a change in the subject: I have been trying to get GARP to stop promoting Schweser in their daily news e-mail, an action which clearly violates their own policy to not promote any training providers)

I think they are just being sloppy, too (I totally agree with you) less than rigorous. ShaktiRathore's assertion is well-grounded: in the US, my understanding is that "first sale doctrine" applies (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-sale_doctrine) i.e., typically, if you buy a copyrighted work, you can re-sell it. Obviously it's complicated and I would simply refer to the first page of the document where the copyright is articulated.

However, it's obviously not our direct issue (although as a forum host, we actually do have serious legal obligations, including we cannot be endorsing or supporting illegal copyright violations): Suzanne was just trying to run helpful interference, and she reported back what GARP's SVP told her.

For the record, my purchased copies of the P2 readings [I do not own GARP P1 chapters ] all contain on the first page:

No part of this material may be copied, modified, adapted, translated, reproduced, transferred or distributed. In any form or by any means, and no derivative works may be made based on this material without the prior permission of the GARP Digital Library and/or the publisher. You may not alter, remove or suppress in any manner any copyright, trademark or other notices displayed in this material. You may not license, rent, sell, loan, lease, pledge, offer as security, transfer or assign this material, or any of the rights granted to you hereunder to any other person.

Thanks

 

[Hend Abuenein]

Thanks David,
And Suzanne Evans Thank you for making the interference.

 

[otherwisee]

So is anyone willing to resell their books as it's NOT against their policy?

 

[tkvfrm]

I guess selling with an intent to make a profit is prohibited. In my undergrad days students do sell text books at lesser than marked price. The question here is that of ethics. Reading the posts the intent is not to make a profit. and it is not a commercial activity.

 

[David Harper CFA FRM]

I am not aware that price (or profit) enters into consideration as factor, at least in regard to US 1st doctrine law (in any case, I'd think the original publisher might be more vexed by low prices of re-sold digital goods)