Doctorow School USC in Copyright Law
Cory Doctorow is currently a visiting professor at the University of Southern California. This is an incredible opportunity for those students to learn from him, but today the school's administration got a little lesson of their own.
In response to the RIAA's increased effort to stop p2p on college campuses, the USC administration sent an email to all students. The letter was filled with half-truths, important omissions and dreadful scare-tactics (in much the same manner as this and this).
Doctorow has posted an annotated of the letter correcting the travesties.
One of the most audacious claims in the letter is:
As an academic institution, USC's purpose is to promote and foster the creation and lawful use of intellectual property.Can you believe an educator said this? As Doctorow points out, if this were true, USC's success would be measured on the number of patents and copyrights it holds, not the number of students who receive an education and create works of scholarship.
If I were a graduate or student at USC, they would be receiving a scathing letter of my own...
3 comments:
Isn't this whole RIAA letter thing incredibly scary? Do you think it will cause colleges to start discouraging fair use of other copyrighted materials for fear of retribution? Kind of an over-reaching over-reaction?
The schools need to recognize that the scholars rely on fair use for all their work. It cannot leave a campus or the scholars will.
I do, however, think the students will be restricted. I just read somewhere that a school in England is banning torrent sites.
Thank you for sharing such a nice article.
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