To make a long story short, the Obama administration's Copyright Office is likely going to file an amicus brief to support corporate publishers in an attempt to get rid of universties "Electronic Reserves" which make student's lives much easier and are clearly fair use.

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130131/00310621834/obama-administration-considers-joining-publishers-fight-to-stamp-out-fair-use-universities.shtml

Sadly neither party is really looking out for people in the important issues.

ugh... Publishers come out with a new version to force schools to buy the new book and the only thing thats changed is a paragraph in a chapter the class never gets to

I have no interest in politics and only clicked on this because I was bored.

Where's a "Thanks Obama" gif when you need one?

Wrong post

It's not really a poltics thing so much as a Students being forced to

A) Have to pay even more for their education as they have to pay fees for products/tution goes up because of said fees.

B) Learn less because they don't have access to fair use documents.

C) Maybe be forced to carry around a bunch of scanned matierals that can be eaisly lost?  I'd have to guess however that such use would be included in the lawsuit (already consdiered illegal) because what's the difference.

It's certaintly not the policy change in regards to IP law people were hoping for after Aaron Swartz's suicide.

Oh well I'm sorry about that. I get free education because I'm in the Air Force so I guess it doesn't effect me, but sorry about that. 

I wouldn't really say that.  Politics is a rather large word.  Then again, I would also say the statement that he has no interest in politics is also not true.

Kind of interesting. I've never used the electronic reserve system, but I always wondered what the rules were on teachers uploading scanned documents.......primarily, at what point is it no longer just an excerpt? The copyright rules actually seem pretty vague on the point. Granted, I don't have the time to take an in-depth look at them.

These publishers just need to suck it up. They make more than enough money.