Word: copyrighting
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...observations on statements by Melinda T. Koyanis, Copyright-and-Permissions Manager of the Harvard Press ("Hot Type," Chronicle of Higher Education, November 17). Koyanis asserts that "authorizing" an anthology such as my Poetic Work of Emily Dickinson, a text "based on one person's variant typographic interpretation of the poetry, aimed at a general reader, was not in the best interest of preserving or presenting the integrity of the Dickinson work...
WASHINGTON: "This was the canonical 'look and feel' lawsuit," says TIME's Philip Elmer-DeWitt of Tuesday's Supreme Court ruling that denied copyright protection to the "menu command" portion of Lotus' 1-2-3 spreadsheet software. Voting without Justice John Paul Stevens, who earlier excused himself for undisclosed reasons, the court on a divided 4-4 vote upheld without comment a lower court ruling that Borland did not violate copyright laws when it incorporated an almost identical menu command bar into its own Quattro spreadsheet programs because the menu is a "method of operation" which does not qualify...
Academic freedom at Harvard allows each professor to direct his or her own research. It allows each department to determine the content of its class. And it should allow each professor to determine what material is appropriate for the class's sourcebook. Copyright officer William G. Witt's decision to omit several photos of naked men from a Core sourcebook is a reprehensible violation of this principle...
Witt's decision was as gutless as it was wrong because it was not his decision to make. Witt's responsibility is not to avoid controversy or to make editorial decisions on the content of the sourcebook. His position as copyright officer is to secure the requisite permission for reproductions and to produce the sourcebook for the professors. The professors, and not a Harvard bureaucrat, must decide what is fitting for classroom discussion...
Bryson has said he expects to include the article in the sourcebook next year--this time providing Witt adequate time to obtain copyright permission. We expect that Harvard will listen to its professors and not repeat this foolish censorship...