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Using Copyright As A Means of Suppressing Press Coverage

A story in the Washington Post says administrators at American University are apparently using copyright as a means to suppress a campus gadfly's taping of a public lecture by Tipper Gore.



"It is a very technical charge to assert as the basis of campus punishment," said First Amendment lawyer Floyd Abrams. "A lawyer can make a case that her copyright rights were violated, but it is a very unattractive case."


 


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