Word: copyrighter
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Following the decision, Kinko's agreed not to appeal the case in exchange for a promise that AAP would not further sue the company for additional copyright infringements...
...court cited both exceptions in making its ruling, saying that copy stores could not make copies without first obtaining permission from the copyright holder. The decision sent shockwaves through the copying industry, as many copy companies scrambled to comply, contracting with copyright clearinghouses in some cases and placing the responsibility for obtaining the permissions on professors in most others...
...challenge brazen and, for the publishers, frighteningly public. Shortly after the agreement was initially made, Smith, the owner of Michigan Document Services, went public with his opposition to the AAP, charging that the publishers had used their legal leverage to create a lengthy, overly-expensive process for obtaining copyright permissions...
With Smith making noise, Platt says AAP decided to begin the second phase of their copyright enforcement campaign: bringing smaller copiers into compliance. Picking a starting target was easy--the organization filed suit against Michigan Document Services February 27 on behalf of three of its members. And Smith says he is itching for a fight...
Although Harvard as a whole has a good record of complying with copyright laws in the past, The level of compliance among Harvard departments is more difficult to determine...