At least Cuba OPENLY acknowledges that they will not respect
copyright (they say it is an "exchange" - any Cuban book can be
copied, in return for which in Cuba they allow any other book to be
copied).
In the USA the standards are alos - shall we say - "flexible". But
nobody wants to tangle with Uncle Sam, and anyhow chasing people for
copyright violation is a good way of making yourself bankrupt unless
you are already a big corporation.
Speaking personally (as a publisher) if anybody copies our material
in a small way, THEY ARE WELCOME TO IT (imitation and theft are the
sincerest forms of flattery!); but if it becam,e commercially
important, I'd probably feel differently about it.
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