August 11, 2000
New Software-Licensing Legislation Said to Imperil Academic Freedom
The measure, designed to make state laws consistent, has provoked a storm of criticism
Imagine that an architecture professor distributes to his distance-education students digitized photographs of the palace at Versailles, warns the students about the images' poor quality -- and then gets hit with a lawsuit from the software company that provided the pictures.
The company accuses the professor of violating the terms of the license agreement, which
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