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...that students can have the opportunity to shop for books early and to sell their books back to the Coop. The second suggestion called on professors to utilize Harvard’s abundant online resources, which often include digital versions of the same readings for which students pay copyright fees when buying printed coursepacks. The letter comes just over two weeks after the Undergraduate Council unanimously passed legislation allocating $1,000 to an effort that aims to make books more affordable for students. UC President Ryan A. Petersen ’08 and Student Affairs Committee Chair Michael R. Ragalie...
...outcome, however, was the same. You can't call dibs on an idea. "Everybody is allowed to have ideas, so there's no legal protection for them," says legal commentator Ian Caplin. "But once you express an idea, the law says that copyright can protect that expression." But in this case, both courts agreed that the theories Baigent and Leigh are trying so hard to protect are ideas, not expression. So Brown - and anyone else - is free to use them. Upholding last year's ruling, the appeals court said that the law can't be used to "monopolize historical research...
...That the case even got to an appeal says a lot about how unusual it is. "This case stretched the envelope in terms of the traditional copyright claim scenario," says Caplin. Most copyright trials deal with more obvious breaches of the law, like when chunks of text are lifted from one source and plunked down into another. Cases of cut-and-paste can be pretty cut-and-dry. But the Da Vinci Code case deals with the intangible concepts of ideas, theories and themes. "Has Brown taken away abstract ideas from another source, ideas that are too general...
What would you do if billions of dollars were stolen from you? Understandably upset by spreading music piracy, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has responded to that question by recently launching another campaign to quash the piracy of copyrighted material on college campuses across the country, which they claim has cost billions of dollars of lost revenue. While the RIAA’s concern is understandable—after all, piracy is illegal and the RIAA has every right to punish theft as they see fit—universities have no obligation to be proactive in aiding them...
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