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After reading The Crimson’s Nov. 10 article, “Student Accused of Violating Copyrights,” my heart goes out to Derek A. Slater ’05. As someone who has for many years been attempting to induce the electronic voting machine vendors to provide a reasonable amount of integrity and accountability in their voting systems, I am horrified at Diebold Election Systems’ attempt to use the Digital Millennium Copyright Act to further their regressive practice of hiding behind copyrights in an industry whose products are fundamentally flawed by an almost complete...
...would find at your local Barnes & Noble store. Even with the best cataloging system and the most helpful staff, tracking down every instance of a subject by browsing the stacks could take years. Like Steve Jobs with his iTunes Music Store, Bezos had to negotiate a maze of copyright issues and publishing-house egos to get his digital archive off the ground. Some writers in the cooking and travel genres fear a whole new kind of literary Napster situation. They say readers will too easily crib a recipe or city description without buying the book. They may have a point...
...said that the case for copyright infringement is hardly airtight against Slater, an affiliate of the Berkman Center...
Palfrey said that Slater’s case against claims of copyright infringement are bolstered because the documents were used in an academic and not a commercial manner and they were factual—not creative—works. He added that Slater did not damage their market value because Diebold never intended to sell the documents...
Slater said he has been consulting Law School faculty to consider options for fighting the University’s classification of the documents as copyright violations.He said there has been no date set for a hearing, and that he was not aware of any formal process for making decisions on copyright infringement...