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From: bzs@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Barry Shein)
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Subject: Re: Intellectual property/copyrights
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Date: 5 Jul 88 22:53:48 GMT
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In-reply-to: ralphw@ius3.ius.cs.cmu.edu's message of 28 Jun 88 15:39:00 GMT


There's an interesting letter to the editor in the latest Datamation
(from an attorney) which seems to indicate that State institutions (in
this case specifically UCLA) are immune in most cases from monetary
damages due to copyright infringements (although they can be ordered
to stop whatever behavior is being complained about.)

Apparently such things fall under the 11th Amendment (I don't have a
copy of the Constitution handy, just summarizing.)

	-Barry Shein, Boston University

(Datamation, July 1, 1988, p. 4)