September 22, 2000

Software Licenses and Fair Use

To the Editor:

At the request of State Sen. Leonard Teitelbaum, I write to express his concern over a statement made in the August 11 issue of The Chronicle. In the article entitled "New Software-Licensing Legislation Said to Imperil Academic Freedom," Andrea L. Foster, the reporter, states that "[t]he Maryland legislature failed to approve another amendment that would have specified that libraries' and colleges' use of online material would be governed by federal copyright law

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