Word: kinkos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...reason? In March 1991, a federal court ruled that copying giant Kinko's Graphics Corp. had violated copyright statutes, touching off a movement by publishers to force copiers and colleges to seek permission before they copy any materials for courses...
While the Kinko's case has sparked many of the most significant changes in copyright permissions, the movement for greater compliance is nothing new for publishers. After the Congress revamped copyright law in 1976, publishers--who do business in a high-risk, low-return $50 million industry--began trying to make copying companies comply with their interpretation of the new statutes...
...bottom line is that students who need to do word processing at school are without luck. They are forced to either buy their own software, buy their own computers or pay per hour at OIT or Kinko's. Many families can't really afford to shell out thousands of dollars for a Mac or $20 per five-page paper...
...Turtles characters, is demanding that AT&T refrain from using such terms as turtle power and cowabunga in a 900-number telephone service for kids. In a far- reaching copyright case, book publishers scored an important victory in March when a federal court in New York City fined the Kinko's Graphics national chain of copying stores $510,000 for illegally photocopying and selling excerpts of books to college students...
Every so often, a disturbing case of left-wing closed-mindedness has surfaced on Harvard's campus. Last fall, a Quincy House resident stole copies of the ultraconservative Peninsula from doorsteps and distribution areas. One resident. Last fall, a Kinko's employee refused to photocopy AALARM's anti-abortion posters. One employee. Both incidents demonstrated an arrogant, hypo-critical, tactically misguided inclination to stifle opposing voices. But they were isolated incidents. They were condemned by conservatives and liberals alike. Copies of Peninsula were hastily redistributed, and Kinko's apologized. And we all went on with our lives, none the worse...