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Academic freedom at Harvard allows each professor to direct his or her own research. It allows each department to determine the content of its class. And it should allow each professor to determine what material is appropriate for the class's sourcebook. Copyright officer William G. Witt's decision to omit several photos of naked men from a Core sourcebook is a reprehensible violation of this principle...
Professors of Fine Arts Norman Bryson and Irene J. Winter selected Kobena Mercer's article, "Skin Head Sex Thing," as part of the Literature and Arts B-10 sourcebook readings on photography as an art form. Among its 12 illustrations, Mercer's article includes photos by Robert Mapplethorpe and other artists depicting naked black men in homoerotic poses...
Bryson and Winter asked Witt to reproduce the article in the sourcebook, yet he told them that it would be difficult to obtain copyrights to the photos in time for the start of the semester. The article appeared in the sourcebook, yet none of the photos were reproduced...
...this time he will leave plenty of time for the sourcebook office to obtain copyright permission for the illustrations in the article...
Ironically, the omission of the article from the sourcebook may have created a controversy despite the fact that few students have actually seen the images which accompanied the text...