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Matt Morello, a Yale senior, created Yale Record Exchange (YRX) to fill the void left by the crackdown on Kazaa, a popular music sharing website that has been challenged on copyright issues...
While members can use the website to swap and ultimately copy each other’s music, a one-sentence disclaimer on the site warns that Morello takes no official responsibility for copyright violations...
While Greenspan said it would be hard to trace the copyright offenders through YRX—because it would require proof of actual CD burning—he thought that Morello’s website could still face copyright trouble...
...said that Harvard’s own copyright policy was the national one adopted by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA...
...called open source software ‘uncopyrighted’ software. This is incorrect. Most open-source software is covered by the GPL or the BSD license (or similar licenses such as Apache and PHP license). If a programmer contributes to Linux she does not revoke her copyright on the code. She simply gives the user a license to use that code and to copy and modify it as she wishes. The copyright holder can still release the same code (hers) under a different license-for example, the MYSQL database is released under both the GPL and a commercial license...