What Matters Who Writes?
What Matters Who Responds?
Andrea Lunsford, Rebecca Rickly, Michael Salvo,
and Susan West
This point is exactly what is at issue (or at least one of the points
that were at issue) in the Kinko's case, in which Basic Books won its
suit against Kinko's for infringement of copyright in producing course
packets. Kinko's argued, among other things, that the "value" of these
packets lay in the way they were selected and put together by the
professor of the course and that this "value" should be recognized.
Not so, said the court in deciding in favor of Basic Books. I suspect
we have not heard the end of this debate, for exactly the reasons
Esther Dyson raises in her essay on
intellectual property in Wired.
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