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...addition to facing the heat of angry neighbors, Grogan will oversee Harvard's team of lobbyists, who shuttle betweenWashington and Cambridge and fight in Congress onsuch diverse issues as campus crime reporting,library copyright rules and trademarking of theHarvard name...
...catch? Blank music CDs are still expensive. CD-R music discs cost $6 to $10 apiece, CD-RW discs a whopping $18 to $25. That's thanks in part to a royalty agreement with the recording industry, which also requires that a special "copyright flag," or signal, be embedded on blank discs and that CD recorders accept only these flagged discs. That has kept the price of recordable CDs for music artificially high; virtually identical recordable CDs for computers by contrast are relatively cheap...
Computer makers and webmasters aren't waiting for the music industry to sort things out. With the price of CD-R drives for PCs falling and CD-R blank computer discs (unburdened by copyright flags or royalties) selling for as little as a buck apiece, many computers are better equipped than home stereos to enter the digital-recording era. Even better recording technology is on its way: DVD-RAM and DVD-RW are erasable discs that can hold up to eight times as much data (or music) as CD-R discs. All this is not lost on the tech-wary...
Recent Congressional battles have included fights over research and humanitiesfunding, federal student aid, copyright law, bondtaxes and, last week, diversity in admissions...
Still up in the air is a law attempting tostrictly apply copyright laws to the "electronicarena," which Harvard opposes out of fear that itwill hamper the expansion of on-line research andcommunication...