Word: copyrights
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...choppy waters of Internet copyright law just got even rougher. This week, a federal judge in Utah issued a preliminary injunction against Sandra and Jerald Tanner, whose site, which contains criticisms of the Mormon church, provides links to text pirated from the church's Handbook of Instructions. The judge, whose injunction will stand until the case is tried or settled, said it is likely the couple engaged in "contributory copyright infringement" by linking to a site they knew, or should have known, contained the unauthorized copies. The Tanners' lawyer, on the other hand, argued that since the couple were acting...
...This is a whole new category of information, and it leads to a whole new category of copyright law," says TIME technology writer Joshua Quittner. This case opens up a can of worms many in the communications arena ardently hoped would remain tightly sealed. Since the advent of web sites, communications analysts have argued that applying the same copyright laws to Internet material as are applied to physical books or music would slow the transfer of information on the Web, ostensibly negating a primary purpose of the medium: the free exchange of information. And, as every judge knows, since Internet...
Versity.com claims that the site is providing an important service that will enhance the study habits of students at Harvard and beyond, professors nationwide who find their lectures summarized online say that the service not only provides inaccurate information but represents a copyright infringement on their intellectual property. Versity.com makes its money from running advertising banners on its Web site alongside the lecture notes, which are free to view. Regardless of the legal status of the endeavor, it is unethical for outside corporations to make money off the presentations of Harvard professors, and we find it more concerning that students...
...chores that include research, legal work and quality control for its client corporations, gives some measure of the new American interest in landing on European soil. Most of Equity's 100 or so clients are eyeing Continental markets or have already taken the plunge. Says GM's trademark-and-copyright counsel Ken Enborg: "Europe is on the verge of a corporate brand-licensing explosion...
...terms on a legal level, it seems to me that if students take notes in class of what a professor says--verbatim or almost verbatim--and then publish that, that arguably constitutes a copyright infringement," Connors says. "It's well-established as a matter of law that professors own the copyright on their own lectures...