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October 31, 2007, 04:21 PM ET
The Cost of Copyright Compliance
In an article on yesterday’s file-sharing forum, Ohio University’s student-run newspaper, The Post, sheds some light on the cost of fighting campus piracy. The university, which was once inundated with copyright-infringement claims, hasn’t received any such notices in months. But copyright compliance hasn’t come cheap: Today, the university uses a nearly $60,000 software and hardware package from Audible Magic to stop file sharing on its network and pays about $16,000 for support, maintenance, and regular database updates that allow the system, called CopySense, to detect newly released music.
Campus officials seem satisfied with the investment, and they must certainly be happy that record-company complaints are no longer taking up their time. But how many colleges can afford to devote that much money to an antipiracy tool? —Brock Read
Categories: Campus-Piracy, Leadership
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