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Locking competitors out from price comparison is not part of copyright??s aim. While some courts have protected the creativity of price estimates, they haven’t allowed companies to exclude others from learning market prices or catalog part numbers. CrimsonReading.org, which offers price comparisons built around the book lists gathered from professors and the Coop, furthers copyright??s goals of sharing access to information...
...digital” part of the process. Human fingers holding the books are visible in some of the online images of the scanned material. Verba said that his goal is to digitize as many of Harvard’s books as possible—eventually all those out of copyright??rather than doing so selectively. In contrast, Trainer said that Princeton would solicit faculty and student input on picking the fraction of its library collection to be digitized. Harvard’s libraries, which compose the largest university system in the world, hold more than 15 million volumes...
...turn, Goldenberg should know the answer to his closing question, “What good has really ever come of piracy?” Plenty. If writers like Goldenberg had to secure permission before quoting any material, their creativity would be stifled. In turn, copyright??s purposepromoting the production of and access to creative works—would be stifled...
...wrong when he says that Google Print necessarily takes control away from authors and “compromises the spirit...of copyright.” If Google’s use is fair, the authors have no such control to begin with, and fair use is entirely consonant with copyright??s purpose. Google’s use is piracy only in the sense that fair use quoting is piracy. In fact, Google does not even have to provide an opt-out if its use is fair...
...hired an agent to identify illicit file sharing.” The 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act is cited as the motivation behind this move, though the act only requires service providers to remove or block access to copyrighted information after receiving notification from the copyright??s owner. To top it off, Yale has reduced the maximum possible Kazaa connection speed to a slothly 50 kb per second, allowing students to download a sizeable movie over the course of about a week...
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