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Immediately hailed by publishers as a breakthrough, the agreement irked some small copiers, who labeled it a "corrupt bargain" and openly questioned the AAP's tactics...
...small copier, James M. Smith, made his challenge brazen and, for the publishers, frighteningly public. Shortly after the agreement was initially made, Smith, the owner of Michigan Document Services, went public with his opposition to the AAP, charging that the publishers had used their legal leverage to create a lengthy, overly-expensive process for obtaining copyright permissions...
With Smith making noise, Platt says AAP decided to begin the second phase of their copyright enforcement campaign: bringing smaller copiers into compliance. Picking a starting target was easy--the organization filed suit against Michigan Document Services February 27 on behalf of three of its members. And Smith says he is itching for a fight...
...Ronald S. Rauchberg, lawyer for AAP and the three plaintiffs, Princeton University Press, St. Martin's Press, and the Macmillan Publishing Company's Free Press division, says his organization is not trying to pick on the little...
...December 1986 report written by Harvard attorney Allan A. Ryan urged professors to obtain permissions for everything they copy for a course--the same position that the AAP currently promotes...