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...already requested that universities serve as conduits for more than 1,200 “pre-litigation letters.” Seeking to outsource its enforcement costs, the RIAA asks universities to point fingers at their students, to filter their Internet access, and to pass along notices of claimed copyright infringement...
...easily understand why the RIAA wants help from universities in facilitating its enforcement actions against students who download copyrighted music without paying for it. It is easier to litigate against change than to change with it. If the RIAA saw a better way to protect its existing business, it would not be threatening our students, forcing our librarians and administrators to be copyright police, and flooding our courts with lawsuits against relatively defenseless families without lawyers or ready means to pay. We can even understand the attraction of using lawsuits to shore up an aging business model rather than engaging...
...Syllabi are more creative expressions than bus schedules, and if not paraphrased—to capture only the underlying facts of what is assigned—could be thought of as under copyright,” Zittrain wrote...
...regardless of any copyright issues, Zittrain sees potential for cooperation between student Web entrepreneurs like Hadfield and the Harvard administration...
Hadfield said he was committed to ensuring no copyright or trademark infringement on the site, but that he wanted to work with administrators to put more courses’ information on the site “to expand the range of course modules on Crimson Connect...