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...want to start this column by fulfilling a promise I made last week to Jack Valenti, the outgoing president of the Motion Picture Association of America, when he came to speak to Crimson editors about copyright law and the internet. Here it goes: Downloading or copying music or movies to which you have no “fair use” claim (this is probably true of most of the music you download) is illegal. Any given offense infringes upon an exclusive right to a monopoly bestowed upon the copyright holder by Congress, and they...
...more willing and able to pay for expensive textbooks, perhaps influenced by the fact that financial aid packages at many schools such as Harvard account for textbooks in its costs. Ever since the Supreme Court ruled in 1998 that re-importation of American textbooks no longer violates federal copyright law, entrepreneurial students have garnered major savings by ordering their books from the European branches of major online distributors—www.amazon.co.uk is a prime example—and from other foreign distributors who are able to obtain the books at significantly lower prices. Many have also made profits by selling...
...also considered yesterday the possibility of moving coursepacks online, but concluded it is too expensive since copyright laws require the libraries pay publishers for the rights to use articles...
...real issue in question is, ironically, one of too little control: there simply have not been good mechanisms in place to allow copyright holders to specify when they don’t want to charge royalties or require permission. The copyright code itself, after years and years of strengthening by such neutral parties as Disney, (who, it should noted, renewed strongly their interest in copyright code around the time when they would have otherwise lost their exclusive rights to that famous big-eared mouse), is more or less unflappable at this point...
Fortunately, some smart lawyers and forward thinkers have finally started closing the gap. A movement called the “Creative Commons” led by Stanford Law professor Lawrence Lessig, has created an airtight legal license that allows would-be copyright holders to attach to their works a variety of freedoms. For example, an author might attach to one of their articles the permission to reprint with attribution, but without explicit consent, for noncommercial purposes. Currently the licenses can allow for such things as sampling of multimedia or requiring that people only release derivative works under the same sort...