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From: mjt@super.ORG (Michael J. Tighe)
Newsgroups: comp.edu
Subject: Re: Copyright laws and universities.
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Date: 10 Feb 89 12:38:35 GMT
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In article <5774@super.ORG> mjt@super.UUCP (Michael J. Tighe) writes:

>State of California is exempt from federal copyright laws under the
>11th Amendment. The complaint was filed by BV Engineering, a software

I take that back. I think they are exempt from being sued. In other words,
what they are doing (violating copyright laws) is wrong, but the 11th 
Amendment protects them from being sued for it.

Any lawyers out there that can better interpret this?
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