Re: Coursepacks-outsourcing online distribution

On 4/14/99, Nick Zales <zales[_at_]execpc.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 12 Apr 1999, Georgia Harper <gharper[_at_]utsystem.edu> wrote:
> >
> > I have determined for my institutions (Univ. of Texas System
> > Universities) that there is an important and significant
> > distinction between a for-profit copy shop and a nonprofit,
> > internal University operated copy shop
>
> With all due respect, statements like this, which I see all the
> time, are what make copyright law a joke. A copy is a copy. The
> author's rights are being trampled on either way. I believe the
> entire system needs to be revamped from top to bottom. From a
> copyright office that would probably register the filing of dollar
> bill, to the exorbitant cost of enforcing rights in Federal court
> the system is too complicated. It does not work.

Not to mention the special protection from infringement suits asserted by pirate States under the 11th Amendment. Odd we can muster governmental cooperation to protect the investments of authors and publishers from counterfeiters in the Orient, but not in Texas.

Albert Henderson
Editor, PUBLISHING RESEARCH QUARTERLY
<70244.1532[_at_]compuserve.com> Received on Tue Apr 20 1999 - 20:00:27 GMT