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...semester, and with it comes the proverbial clean slate: new professors, new courses, new assignments and new —very expensive— coursepacks. I had never thought photocopying could be so costly, but since arriving here I’ve learned about royalties, the copyright clearinghouse organizations and the legal wrinkles that make our university copy shops the —perhaps unwilling— servants of established publishing houses. It has been an expensive lesson...
There seems to be no easy solution to this problem. We cannot demand that Harvard Printing and Publications Services (HPPS) or the Coop produce sourcebooks in violation of copyright law. We can ask that professors attempt to choose readings frugally and wisely, but this does not guarantee results. For example, the history of science department assured me in writing that “every effort was made to keep costs down.” Then they blithely informed me that my sourcebook for this semester’s tutorial would be $180, plus tax and shipping. I hope...
There is, however, a creative solution to the problem of expensive coursepacks. Under copyright law, students may take a batch of copyrighted material and make a single copy, or a small number of copies, for personal...
...What can't do is tell you much more about himself - partly because what he's doing is illegal under U.S. copyright law. Tan gives his age as "early thirties" and won't discuss his resume. He is ethnically Chinese, he says, but won't divulge his nationality. Although his servers are mostly based in Taiwan to take advantage of a loophole he claims to have found in that country's copyright laws, he flatly denies that he's Taiwanese...
...least his legal costs aren't an issue. "There is no way the U.S. is going to interfere with law in Taiwan," he predicts. Besides, Taiwan's Internet copyright laws are virtually nonexistent, experts there say. "Several articles under the criminal law lay down penalties for crimes via Internet such as money laundering and counterfeits," explains Chen Mei-ling, at Taiwan's Ministry of Justice. "Other than that, we have no laws...