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...also said that students’ records and academic standing would not be affected by legal action related to file sharing but that the University had no say in the RIAA’s decision of whether to pursue a particular case in court. Students must agree to obey copyright law in order to gain access to the University network...
Jonathan L. Zittrain, the Berkman assistant professor of entrepreneurial legal studies at Harvard Law School (HLS) and faculty co-director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, writes in an e-mail that copyright infringement lawsuits for online file sharing have “become genuinely routine” this year...
...unanswered,” he writes, adding that no file sharing lawsuit has yet gone to court because each case has ended in a settlement and that “publishers have refrained from outright suing universities or commercial internet service providers for ‘contributory’ copyright infringement arising from the activities taking place on their networks...
John G. Palfrey ’94, executive director of the Berkman Center and a lecturer at HLS, writes in an e-mail that this year’s lawsuits against file sharers have shown that copyright holders are serious about protecting their material...
...copyright holders have made it plain this year that they intend to keep the heat on students and others they believe to be infringers, with the number of suits filed now headed into the tens of thousands,” he says. “The copyright holders also made clear that just switching to a new network, like [Internet2], isn’t going to get you off the hook...