Step I DIT no longer using First Aid! Trouble?

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I notice that Doctors in Training is no longer using First Aid for Step 1 in 2013. I am assuming there were some copyright issues with First Aid. I wonder how this is going to affect the course since First Aid is the gold standard and people won't want to add yet another review book. Did they strike a deal with Step Up to become authors = read off their book without consequences? Will you be using it with Step Up?
 
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yeah looks like Lippincott (Step Up) wants to take control of some of the market form McGraw Hill (First AID)

McGraw Hill may have refused to partner up with DIT since First AID just started producing their own videos similar to DIT (they too just read off First AID)

DIT wants to avoid copyright issues with First AID so that they can continue just reading word for word so probably made a deal with Lippincott instead...that's the only explanation for why DIT would give up a guaranteed money maker like First AID

all speculation but makes sense
 
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To be fair, they are both the authors of the new Step Up to Step 1 and they basically rewrote it all.

Also, I've always wondered how First Aid stayed ahead when their main advantage isn't their content, but how that content is arranged. Seems like anyone should be able to take tables of certain writ-in-stone facts and reproduce them with a different artist and not violate copyright...

I'm feeling cautiously optimistic about this. As long as they still have references to First Aid, the worst thing that could happen is they'll try to market their book to you by saying "oh, and addition to that table on page 312, WE ALSO HAVE this! fancy! diagram! which we are showing to you right now." Best of both worlds, you know?
 
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marele86 said:
To be fair, they are both the authors of the new Step Up to Step 1 and they basically rewrote it all.

Also, I've always wondered how First Aid stayed ahead when their main advantage isn't their content, but how that content is arranged. Seems like anyone should be able to take tables of certain writ-in-stone facts and reproduce them with a different artist and not violate copyright...

I'm feeling cautiously optimistic about this. As long as they still have references to First Aid, the worst thing that could happen is they'll try to market their book to you by saying "oh, and addition to that table on page 312, WE ALSO HAVE this! fancy! diagram! which we are showing to you right now." Best of both worlds, you know?
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yes First AID is also facts taken straight out of textbooks, sometimes word for word
 
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