Word: copyrighted
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William Witt, the copyright officer in the Harvard's office of sourcebook publications, which handles all the sourcebooks for the Core classes, said approximately three-quarters of the Core classes have sourcebooks...
...most comprehensive copyright-enforcement agreement ever negotiated by the U. S. with another country. Just 12 days after U.S. Trade Representative Mickey Kantor threatened trade sanctions on more than $1 billion in Chinese goods, the U.S. and China signed an accord to end the piracy of American-made movies, compact discs and computer software. "It is a win-win agreement," said deputy trade representative Charlene Barshefsky...
Although the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) network has refused to allow the committee to rebroadcast its news programs because of copyright laws, Silberstein said he hopes that international networks such as CNN and local public television stations such as WGBH will be willing to participate in the "Harvard TV" program...
...Copyright Act, which covers software as well as tangible commodities like books, records, tapes and film, did not specifically criminalize LaMacchia's alleged conduct because he did not benefit from the venture. Instead, the feds chose to indict him on a charge of conspiracy to commit wire fraud. That was not a particularly good fit either, but government officials felt they had to charge him with something. ``If the government did not respond when someone gave away a million dollars in software,'' says Scott Charney, who heads the U.S. Justice Department's computer-crimes unit, ``we'd essentially be saying...
...conduct. In the LaMacchia case, civil libertarians were disturbed at what they saw as strong-arm tactics: an attempt to mold criminal law according to what the Justice Department wanted. Judge Stearns, in his decision to dismiss the case, suggested that it was up to Congress to amend the copyright laws if it wanted to encourage this sort of prosecution...