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July 11, 2007, 01:10 PM ET
Critics of Academic Copyright License Speak Out
California State University at Northridge will not be taking advantage of the new streamlined process for colleges to reuse copyrighted material, according to an article last week in the campus newspaper, the Daily Sundial.
The process lets colleges pay a blanket fee to use copyrighted works rather than secure the rights to such content on a per-use basis. The Copyright Clearance Center, a nonprofit company, created the license in cooperation with a group of publishers.
An official at the Northridge campus tells the Daily Sundial that the university would not benefit financially from the license because it covers only a fraction of the publishers that the university has a relationship with.
Of the 107 requests made by professors last semester to include copyrighted works in course packets, only 32 of them were tied to publishers that work with the Copyright Clearance Center, the official says.
Also this month, James Boyle, a law professor at Duke University and an intellectual-property expert, urges colleges to renounce the new license in an article in the Financial Times, saying that it will erode the concept of fair use.---Andrea L. Foster
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