Re: Florida Pre-paid v. College Savings Bank

Here's an interesting point that was just made about the impact of Florida Pre-Paid v. College Savings Bank to the copyright world ---

"This ruling is likely to have serious repercussions in such areas as
copyright law, where state universities, now chafing under expanded copyright protection, might decide to copy and distribute to students whatever literature they wish, ignoring the copyright laws but safe in the knowledge that they cannot be sued." (S. Sherry, "Some Targets Were Larger Than Others," Wash. Post., July 4, 1999, at B-4).

Those who remember the cases involving Kinko's, Texaco, and related
"copy shop" scenarios, will see the potential for state universities
taking over the course-pack material market, at least for their own students.

Alan Kabat
(Washington, D.C.)
<alankabat[_at_]aol.com> Received on Sun Jul 04 1999 - 19:37:24 GMT