Tehran, YJC. Publishing official says it will not do Iran any good to ratify copyright.
Ali Akbar Turanian, Member of the Academic Publishers
Association Board of Directors, in interview with Tasnim news agency in
response to uprising controversy about Iran ratifying copyright, currently the
talk in the Ministry of Culture, said "It is a pity that things are said which
show that many of the officials do not understand the situations. We are a
country at undercover fight with the US, a country which has been put under
unjust sanctions. With these sanctions the US or European countries will not
make bones to do anything.”
"Meanwhile in academic circles the majority of books
referenced to are foreigners. We need the scientific books that are published
throughout the world. What will we gain if we ratify copyright?” he demanded.
Turanian further said "Ratifying copyright is like putting
our hand under the enemy’s cleaver. We need technology and science today so
that we may use it to get to our real standing. If we put our hand under the
enemy’s cleaver, an enemy who has done everything to impose sanctions on us in
drugs and other things, what will we do if he comes about and puts sanctions on
science as well? Today our students are reading these very books. If we consider
the issue seriously, we will find that there is no need to do something like
that.”