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...those still worried, as the OCS e-mail points out, the facebook does allow students to choose their desired privacy level. If a student is intent upon having a more unsavory online reputation, he or she should simply opt for a more exclusive level of privacy. While frustrating for those students who hate being denied access to any profile, it is a more reasonable option than risking looking foolish in front of prospective employers...
...fair, the authors have no such control to begin with, and fair use is entirely consonant with copyright’s purpose. Google’s use is piracy only in the sense that fair use quoting is piracy. In fact, Google does not even have to provide an opt-out if its use is fair...
Students have a real choice in this election. We can opt for more of the same, or elect leaders of a student government of which we can all be proud. Unlike the other candidates, Magnus and Tom have five specific pledges to change fundamentally the UC’s role on campus...
...possibility that these publishers could succeed in putting the brakes on what ought to be considered a thoroughly useful venture is extremely regrettable, but the fault is not theirs to bear. Rather, it’s Google that needs to change its policy on copyright from an opt-out system, in which publishers are assumed to have given permission for their books to be copied unless they specifically state otherwise, to an opt-in process, which puts control over copyrighted works safely in the hands of copyright holders. While the current system may be convenient for the multi-billion dollar...
...account, however, for a truly fundamental precondition for Google’s distributing printed material in this way—that, in the default situation, control remains firmly in the hands of the authors and publishers who own the copyrights of the books in question. Google’s opt-out proposition takes that basic control away from those to whom it rightfully belongs, compromising, in my non-expert estimation, the spirit—if not also the letter—of copyright laws...