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...Yagan maintains that his company never violated any copyright laws. According to the current interpretation of the law established by the recent Supreme Court decision MGM v. Grokster, it is not illegal to sell file sharing software. Rather, it is against the law to encourage illegal downloads...
Less than two weeks ago, we outlined steps professors should take to reduce the cost of coursepacks. Linking to e-resources instead of including articles (and their attendant copyright costs) in coursepacks is one easy way for professors to help students save on course materials. The burden should not fall on professors alone, however. Now that most of the coursepacks have been distributed for the semester, the PMD can begin reviewing what went wrong and what went right, and formulating plans to keep costs down for the coming years...
...long as such copyright restrictions can be maintained, there is no reason not to see digitization as fair use under U.S. copyright law, which permits everything from personal use copying to parodies to excerpts in book reviews. We see copyright laws not as a means to keep information away, but one to disseminate it justly, keeping in mind the labor of the producers. We know of no better way of pleasing deceased thinkers than by having their hard-earned ideas and research be available to dramatically larger groups of people...
...Pricing is based on copyright clearance costs. There are some in the public domains, but publishers will often set very large fees per page to encourage people to buy the entire book...
...cost is wrapped up in our tuition check. LexisNexis (where determined Harvard politicos can still, incidentally, read Krugman’s columns), the Oxford English Dictionary, a whole bunch of e-journals, and our academic records all live behind the ugly yellow PIN Authentication page for a variety of copyright- and privacy-related reasons...