Boston College and MIT Battle the Music Industry
From today’s Boston Globe: “Boston College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, citing concerns about student privacy, moved yesterday to
quash subpoenas issued by the recording industry to discover the identities of students the industry says are illegally
distributing copyrighted music.”
The hunt for student violators at several other universities and colleges is discussed in the article, also.
WBUR’s radio program Here and Now covered this issue today. (I was too busy blogging to notice the time and tuned in too late to hear it live.) They archive their shows on their Web site.
Addendum: The Chronicle of Higher Education has a longer piece about the subpeonas to BC, MIT, and other institutions in their 7/23 Web edition: http://chronicle.com/daily/2003/07/20030…. (Access is restricted to subscribers.) Part of the discussion centers on whether any federal district court has jurisdiction to issue subpeonas to institutions in other federal districts and whether colleges and universities are required by the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (aka Ferpa or the Buckley Amendment) to notify students of the subpeona and how that notification might interfere with the terms of the subpeona.
