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...professors co-defendants in a case filed by the Association of American Publishers (AAP) in New York District Court last December 9 are charged with violating the Copyright Act of 1976 by copying large sections of books for their courses without first obtaining the permission of the authors...
...professors copied class material as long as 300 pages "year after year" said Carol A Risher, director of the AAP copyright division in an article that appeared in the Chronicle of Higher Education recently...
...think that problem [of copyright violation] memorandum to all faculty after the 1976 law was passed, outlining the changes in copying regulations and since then has received only occasional requests for clarification of the regulations...
...rider to the Copyright Act of 1976, which took effect in 1978, stipulates that professors may copy only 10 percent of a total work for class use, and that only if there is to be no more than one copy for each student in the class. The 1976 act was the first revision of the nation's copyright legislation since 1909. The current case represents the first time the Copyright Act has been directed specifically at University professors...
...even more even with Marshall, Dallas Owner Clint Murchison obtained a piece of the copyright on Washington's cherished fight song, Hail to the Redskins, played for a galling time at his sufferance. So half-time shows joined the area of dispute. One Sunday early on, commandos from Dallas, or maybe Fort Worth, smuggled scores of chickens into the Washington stadium as part of a scheme to disrupt the marching band. Though the chickens were discovered in time, and distributed to needy families in turn, the incident left a bitter taste...