Word: copyrighting
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...does not permit wholesale copying (which is what digitization is),” a publishing representative wrote to The Crimson last week. Yet the digitization project only seeks to make excerpts of copyrighted material publicly available, a service that Amazon has provided for years. Even if the project did technically violate existing copyright law, this legal complication would derive from the obsolescence of copyright law, not the law’s actual intent. After all, the bulk of copyright law was written before digitization or the Internet ever existed. In fact, the true spirit of the copyright statutes has always...
...recording industry has gained a new partner in its myopic campaign of strict copyright law enforcement: the publishing industry. What publishers oppose, however, is far more significant than the freedom to shuffle between Bruce Hornsby and U2 on an iPod. When a group of publishers announced last week that they disapproved of a Harvard University Libraries (HUL) project to digitize a portion of Harvard’s books, they declared their hostility toward the enrichment and advancement of the academic world...
Mitchell said that although the University plays no role in determining the legal consequences faced by students caught sharing copyrighted material, it does require students to agree to comply with copyright law before they are allowed access to the University network...
...said the University does not actively look for students who are violating copyright law, but that it occasionally discovers such cases “when there’s a lot of bandwidth being used.” In these situations, a series of warning letters is sent to the student involved...
Engebretsen said the RIAA has filed approximately 9,100 lawsuits against individuals for copyright infringement since September...