Date: 14 Mar 2001 21:59:46 GMT
Subject: Harvard Law School and the COS
Message-ID: <20010314165946.03169.00001947@ng-md1.aol.com>
I just found a wonderful example of how the COS is making quite a name for itself in the legal community and in the law schools.
The following is an excerpt from a Harvard University Law School article on copyright issues and the Internet, titled "WHO IS VULNERABLE TO SUIT? Internet Service Provider Liability and Jurisdiction."
The entire article can be found at:
http://eon.law.harvard.edu/property/liability/
The Curmudgeon Disturber of the Peace Institute
http://members.aol.com/dpinstitut/index.html ------------- Case Study You are the chief executive officer and largest shareholder of Baffled Internet Group, or BIG. You provide Internet access to over 5 million clients, mainly in the United States. Many of those clients have web pages that are stored on your servers (located throughout the country in every state). These web pages are accessible through the World Wide Web. Anyone who can get on the web can get to these pages.
....One day, you receive a letter from I.N. Housecounsel, a lawyer for the Church of Humanitology. It states, in pertinent part:
"It has come to our attention that one of your clients, Mr. DeBunker, has posted a web page that is very critical of Humanitology on one of your servers.
Of course, we have great respect for his First Amendment right to criticize our Church. However, Mr. DeBunker has apparently decided to post verbatim the entire contents of one of our publications, "The Secrets of Highly Intrepid Humanitologists." This publication is strictly guarded by the Church and is only made available to Humanitologists at a cost of $7,000 per copy. In order to avoid the expense of needless litigation, kindly:
1. Remove this publication from your servers, 2. Forward a check to us for ($7,000) x (the number of people who have downloaded the publication from your servers) 3. Give us your server logs so that we may discern who has visited Mr.
DeBunker's copyright-infringing web page and stamp out this runaway act of piracy.
Yours, I.N. Housecounsel."
You take a very deep breath, and call your cardiologist. Afterwards, you call your chief technology wonk, Bing the Server King....
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