Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cornell!rochester!rutgers!att!ihlpb!nevin1 From: nevin1@ihlpb.ATT.COM (Liber) Newsgroups: comp.edu Subject: Re: Copyright laws and universities. Message-ID: <9548@ihlpb.ATT.COM> Date: 9 Feb 89 00:33:51 GMT References: <115@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> Reply-To: nevin1@ihlpb.UUCP (55528-Liber,N.J.) Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories - Naperville, Illinois Lines: 20 In article <115@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> mwilkins@jarthur.UUCP (Mark Wilkins) writes: >Does anyone have any information about action being taken against colleges >or universities for using bootleg software on their microcomputers? I seem >to recall an incident at the University of Wisconsin a few years ago. Well, I have an old article from PC-Week (it was given to me and the date/issue # is not on it, so I can't give a real reference) on how UCLA pirates software by using a legal loophole. Basically, since UCLA is a state agency, they are immune from federal copyright laws. And then we wonder why so many people don't find pirating or cracking unethical. Oh, well. If you want more info, let me know. -- _ __ NEVIN ":-)" LIBER nevin1@ihlpb.ATT.COM (312) 979-4751 IH 4F-410 ' ) ) "I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, / / _ , __o ____ briefed, debriefed or numbered! My life is my own!" / (_