Word: copyright
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...Jacksonville are accused of posting tracks from “Jacksonville City Nights,” the latest album from Ryan Adams and the Cardinals, on an internet fansite before the album was released.They are the first to be indicted under a provision of the Family Entertainment and Copyright Act (FECA) of 2005. The act specifically targets those who distribute media before it is com-mercially distributed, a huge problem for the music industry.“[Pre-release] piracy is a really big deal,” Samuel D. G. Jacoby ’08, who is also...
...Coop, says that Harvard undergraduates have spent over $700,000 on coursepacks this year at the Coop alone. But don’t blame the distributors for high prices: After the Coop’s rebate, the profit margin on coursepacks is negligible. Coursepacks are expensive because the copyright royalties for articles quickly add up. When you also factor in commercial printing costs, it’s not unusual for a coursepack to cost over $100—as we know all too well. There is reason to be hopeful. Astonishingly, all 30 of the articles in the Ec10 coursepack...
...lowering the prices of coursepacks. Coursepack prices can be reduced if students are provided links to online resources that the College has already paid for, according to UC members. The students would then be able to forgo buying the reading in a printed coursepack and thus avoid paying the copyright fee a second time. The Ec 10 sourcebook, they said, costs $60 at the Harvard Coop, but all 30 of the readings can be accessed online for no charge.Administrators, though, cautioned that many readings are not available through online resources. They agreed with the UC members, however, that a widespread...
...simple and obvious—embarrassingly so for a college that has shamelessly shirked away from finding ways to reduce the financial burden of coursepacks. First, for most courses, a bulk of the readings are accessible through the Harvard Library E-Resources, a service for which students already pay copyright permissions in their tuition. Students threw away $40,560, for instance, on the 30 readings in the Ec10 coursepack this semester; all those readings are available for free on E-Resources. In fiscal year 2005 alone, over $4 million was spent by students...
...long as students have to pay the same copyright prices twice, Harvard is essentially robbing them,” he said...