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Public schools are NOT state agencies, according to the opinion you stated = and Rodriguez v Texas, the other case making this assertion. The Supremes = limited this shield to the state government itself, not cities, counties, = and school districts/corporations. Sorry folks, you still have to abide by = copyright law. Carol Simpson, Ed.D. Asst. Professor School of Library & Information Sciences University of North Texas P.O. Box 311068 Denton, TX 76203 940.565.2445 940.565.3101 FAX csimpson@lis.admin.unt.edu >>> Steve Burstein <sburstei@WAHOO.SJSU.EDU> 06/08 2:30 PM >>> Dear group, In reguards to copyright we have been discussing this at my school site. In June of 1999, the supreme court handed down decisions sheilding states from federal law. In particular the case College Savings Bank vs Florida prepaid 98-149 The court said that a private bank developed a popular tuition prepayment plan and later several states adopted this plan, that the states could not be sued for patent infringement and for false advertising in violation of trademark law. Basically the court said the bank could not sue the state. The court case was a 5-4 decision with the 4 liberal judges in dissent. Judge Breyer used Los Angeles as an example that UCLA could sue USC for patent infringement but that USC could not sue UCLA for the same act. So my question to all is do we really need site licenses for software products. I know there are some real experts in this group like Carol Simpson who might be able to shed some light on this topic. It would seem that public schools (as state agencies) would be allowed to violate federal copyright law. Steven Burstein Library Media Specialist Parkman Middle School Woodland Hills CA librarian@mac.com=20 http://www.lausd.k12.ca.us/Parkman_MS/library=20 A KidsConnect and Virtual Refence Desk volunteer =3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D= -=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D=3D-=3D All postings to LM_NET are protected under copyright law. To quit LM_NET (or set-reset NOMAIL or DIGEST), send email to: listserv@listserv.syr.edu In the message write EITHER: 1) SIGNOFF LM_NET 2) SET LM_NET NOMAIL or 3) SET LM_NET DIGEST 4) SET LM_NET MAIL * Please allow for confirmation from Listserv. For LM_NET Help see: http://ericir.syr.edu/lm_net/=20 Archives: http://askeric.org/Virtual/Listserv_Archives/LM_NET.html=20 =3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D= -=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D--=3D-=3D-=3D =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-= All postings to LM_NET are protected under copyright law. To quit LM_NET (or set-reset NOMAIL or DIGEST), send email to: listserv@listserv.syr.edu In the message write EITHER: 1) SIGNOFF LM_NET 2) SET LM_NET NOMAIL or 3) SET LM_NET DIGEST 4) SET LM_NET MAIL * Please allow for confirmation from Listserv. For LM_NET Help see: http://ericir.syr.edu/lm_net/ Archives: http://askeric.org/Virtual/Listserv_Archives/LM_NET.html =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=