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...primary causes of sourcebook sticker shock are the sometimes astronomical copyright and royalty fees involved in republishing articles. Coursepacks were once protected from copyright violations through the fair use exception clause (Section 107) of the amended Copyright Act of 1976. However, in 1991, Kinko’s Copy Centers lost a copyright lawsuit over the publishing of coursepacks, and universities across the country took notice. Although not every sourcebook necessarily falls under the Kinko’s ruling, each must be scrutinized individually to ensure it passes the copyright rules, which requires legal fees exceeding the cost of the material...
...It’s definitely been somewhat of a culture shock,” Moore said. “My friends are telling me that I’ve lost my Southern accent, but I hope...
After finishing his final exams last month, players said, Harvey made it known to teammates that he was worried about his grades. When Sullivan made the announcement on Saturday that Harvey’s season was over, the news did not come as a shock...
...don’t the above figures shock Currie for another reason, that is, that a whopping 50% of all American wage earners pay no income tax because they couldn’t possible pay it? That half of all American workers earn so little that the government has figured out it’s pointless trying to shake them down for their “fair share” of all the benefits the government supplies us with: the cost of negotiating and administrating NAFTA, of the CIA toppling foreign governments on behalf of their vital business interests...
Although department members reactions to news of the relationship ranged from “interest” to “surprise” to “shock,” they say it was not a prominent or openly discussed factor in departmental operations last spring. According to Watson, however, “a certain amount of conspiracy theorizing” formed over two incidents: a departmental meeting about an ad hoc case and the Paulin incident...