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...cease and desist letter was not the first legal encounter between the Coop and textbook price comparison services. In Sept. 2007, the Coop called the Cambridge Police Department after employees from CrimsonReading—who were manually writing down textbook ISBN numbers in the Coop—refused to leave the store. But the police made no arrests, and three affiliates of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society later denounced the Coop’s actions in a Crimson editorial, arguing that CrimsonReading had not violated copyright...
...Beginning this past fall, BrunoBooks began taking information from the Coop’s Web site rather than the store itself. But rather than turning a blind eye to BrunoBooks’ practices, Barnes & Noble’s cease and desist letter is now threatening to press charges against what Staff calls an “analogous action...
...think Barnes & Noble is deliberating misinterpreting the law,” said Seltzer, one of the authors of the 2007 editorial. “They’re claiming broader protections than the law would give us.” According to Seltzer, who read the cease and desist letter, copyright law only covers the selection and arrangement of factual information and not the information itself, such as textbook titles and prices...
...Though the letter said that further legal action would be taken if BrunoBooks did not respond within seven days, Maddox said that Barnes & Noble has not followed up on its threats, although three months have passed...
...Maddox said that BrunoBooks is not planning to respond with legal action of its own, and is simply hoping that Barnes & Noble will retract the letter...