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...Since publishers won in the suit against Kinko's, [the photocopying company], copyright fees have increaseddramatically," She said...
University attorney Allen A. Ryan Jr., whohandles copyright law matters for Harvard, saidthe laws do not permit "materials to be reproducedfor classroom use without the permission of thecopyright holder...
Susan W. Lewis, director of the Core program, said copyright fees are largely responsible for the price increases...
William G. Witt, copyright officer in theoffice of Sourcebook Publications, said that therelative breakdown of cost per sourcebook is "50percent copyright fees and 50 percent reproductioncosts...
Certainly the network TV system is rigged heavily against fair use. For one thing, the insurance companies that provide the obligatory "errors and omissions" insurance for TV productions demand that each clip come with a permission slip from its copyright owner. (Imagine if a book critic had to get Rush Limbaugh's permission to quote his prose in a review, and maybe pay him for the privilege; that's precisely the situation in TV.) Furthermore, television "signal piracy" -- that is, merely taping and then broadcasting 10 seconds of Barbara Walters in order to critique her performance -- is a federal crime...