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What about the prices that the Coop set and affixed to books? Copyright doesn’t protect the “sweat of the brow” involved in compiling facts, either: “[C]opyright rewards originality, not effort.” Nor does it give monopoly control of minimally expressive statements (for example, a book’s price) that “merge” with the underlying idea (for example, its market value). A federal appeals court recently denied the New York Mercantile Exchange’s bid to protect its list of stock...
...what appears to be the betrayal of Sheik Sattar shows the dangers of romanticizing any of Iraq's various factions. The tribes did not turn on AQI for entirely admirable reasons. They turned, in part, to protect their own interests - the power they wielded and the wealth that their power entailed. If the situation changes or sufficient inducements are offered, some of them will no doubt switch sides again...
Harvard, wary of Kleenex’s fate, has always taken special care to protect its brand. The employees of the Harvard Trademark Program, with an official Orwellian mandate to “protect and control” Harvard’s brand identity across the world, show up to work each day to ensure that, Heaven forbid, no street vendor in Dakar or Dot sells an unlicensed T-shirt with our sacrosanct insignia on it. The Harvard name does not merely signify unrivaled academic power—it signifies the registered trademark of unrivaled academic power, full rights reserved...
...clear that students store belongings in Houses entirely at their own risk. Such storage is a luxury; very few peer institutions provide free, on-campus storage, even at colleges where students typically live on campus for four years. It is thus unreasonable for students to expect the College to protect their stored belongings. The storage space is exactly what it is advertised to be: free, voluntary, unsecured storage for the summer months. Generally, the system works remarkably well given the utter chaos of move out and move in. Lost boxes are remarkably rare and are often the result of disorganization...
...NBME only permits additional break time for disabilities covered by the Americans with Disabilities Act, which does not specifically protect breast-feeding mothers...