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...possibly the first case of its kind--one that could set precedents for academic photocopying across the country--seven publishers sued Gnomon Corporation this week, charging it with extensive violations of copyright...
...suit against the Cambridge-based photocopying chain, organized by the Association of American Publishers (AAP), asks for the disclosure of Gnomon's records and for an unspecified amount of money as damages. Gnomon officials have refused to comment on the case...
...suit involves a service Gnomon offers called "micropublishing," Henry R. Kaufman, vice president of AAP's General Council, says. Under this service a professor brings in material for Gnomon to copy and collect in an anthology and then sell to the students of his class...
Here at Harvard, Edward T. Wilcox, director of General Education, says his department does a large amount of copying to prepare course materials but that he does not know of any instructor using Gnomon's service...
However, Kaufman says, "The magnitude of copying done by Gnomon would be considered a violation whether they sold the material for profit...