Colleges, Computers and Copyright


Harvard undergrad Derek Slater posted a copy of the Diebold memos to his weblog, on a Harvard server and received a cease and desist notice from Diebold. Harvard policy is to terminate the network access of any student who is a “repeat offender” of copyright infringing activities. Slater challenged the “first strike”:

While I greatly appreciate the University’s appropriate response and the

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