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Published in the June newsletter of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School, the article entreats universities to tell the RIAA to “take a hike...
Over the past four years, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has pursued people who download copyrighted material and threatened them with lawsuits if they don’t settle out of court...
...last February, the RIAA extended these lawsuits to college students by asking universities to forward “pre-litigation” letters to students who download music illegally...
...This move by the RIAA puts a huge burden on the social fabric of the university,” said Weld Professor of Law Charles R. Nesson ’60, one of the article’s authors and the founder of the Berkman Center...
...mere understanding is no reason for a university to voluntarily assist the RIAA with its threatening and abusive tactics. Instead, we should be assisting our students both by explaining the law and by resisting the subpoenas that the RIAA serves upon us. We should be deploying our clinical legal student training programs to defend our targeted students. We should be lobbying Congress for a roll back of the draconian copyright law that the copyright industry has forced upon us. Intellectual property can be efficient when its boundaries are relatively self-evident...