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...lowering the prices of coursepacks. Coursepack prices can be reduced if students are provided links to online resources that the College has already paid for, according to UC members. The students would then be able to forgo buying the reading in a printed coursepack and thus avoid paying the copyright fee a second time. The Ec 10 sourcebook, they said, costs $60 at the Harvard Coop, but all 30 of the readings can be accessed online for no charge.Administrators, though, cautioned that many readings are not available through online resources. They agreed with the UC members, however, that a widespread...
...simple and obvious—embarrassingly so for a college that has shamelessly shirked away from finding ways to reduce the financial burden of coursepacks. First, for most courses, a bulk of the readings are accessible through the Harvard Library E-Resources, a service for which students already pay copyright permissions in their tuition. Students threw away $40,560, for instance, on the 30 readings in the Ec10 coursepack this semester; all those readings are available for free on E-Resources. In fiscal year 2005 alone, over $4 million was spent by students...
...long as students have to pay the same copyright prices twice, Harvard is essentially robbing them,” he said...
...digitized during the production or distribution process. Books are written on computers, movies are released on DVD, artwork is photographed (though this certainly can’t capture all of its nuances), and television and radio programs are recorded and streamed online. Accessibility is certainly a concern, and copyright a closely related one, but the bits, which unlike analog media can be perfectly preserved indefinitely, are safely stored.The intellectual output of mankind in the three or so millennia leading up to 1995 is not faring as well. Google announced last year that it planned to begin digitizing material in university...
People are being urged to adopted very restrictive copyright regimes that limit how they can do distance education, how they can promote their own local culture, what kind of technology they can develop, turning these nations into exporters of the GDP to the developed world in a kind of new colonialism...