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...officials hope will make the town a Mickey Mecca - and perhaps threaten Disney's copyright. Stanford professor Lawrence Lessig notes that a long-standing legal hypothetical asks: "What if two people independently wrote the same play?" The answer, he says: "Both get a copyright. Seems fact is stranger than cartoon." THE BOURSE Give 'Em Credit HSBC has for years snapped up assets across Asia and the Americas, but some analysts still balked at last week's purchase of U.S-based Household International for a vault-draining $14 billion in stock. Household, which gives credit and loans to "sub-prime" customers...
...issue at hand was an Oct. 28 editorial cartoon satirizing HBS’ bug-ridden “Career Link” software that contained a jibe at unnamed “incompetent morons.” Will claims in his letter of resignation that Nelson told him the cartoon went against the Business School’s Community Standards requirement that each member of the school have “respect for the rights, differences and dignity of others.” Will’s letter says that Nelson also told him that he might be subject...
Though the administration claims that the meeting with Will was merely to be a “casual conversation,” that the editor felt threatened enough to resign speaks volumes. No matter how offensive the cartoon might have been, the Business School has absolutely no right to intimidate Will when it is upset with Harbus’ content; the paper is an independent entity with no financial ties to the school. For the HBS administration to threaten Will for actions he took in a role entirely separate from his position as a student sets a dangerous precedent...
Though it is irrelevant to the issue at hand, it is surprising that the cartoon was “deeply hurtful and demoralizing for the career services staff,” in the words of HBS Senior Associate Dean Walter C. Kester. One would expect the administrators of a program for students to be slightly more thick-skinned, especially as it remains unclear whether the barb was aimed at the Business School’s Career Services Office or those who wrote its software. In any case, the correct response to such an attack is to write a letter...
...ludicrous that the Business School administration complained about two words in the bottom left corner of a cartoon mocking a computer program. It is dismaying that these administrators took this as an excuse to use a broad campus speech code to threaten the editorial freedom of an independent newspaper...