Harvard bookstore says their prices are "property"
The Coop, Harvard's Barnes-and-Noble-run bookstore, is now throwing out students who "take a lot of notes" about book pricing, claiming that their book prices are "intellectual property." (!!!) Apparently, no one with a law degree was involved in creating this this idiotic policy, because factual matters (such as pricing) are not copyrightable.
Coop President Jerry P. Murphy said that while there is no explicit policy against individual students copying down book information, "we discourage people who are taking down a lot of notes." The apparent new policy could be a response to efforts by [a href="vny!://crimsonreading.org"]Crimsonreading.org[/a] (an online database that lets students to find books they need for their courses at discounted prices from a variety of online booksellers) from daring to write down the ISBN identification numbers for books at the Coop and then using that information for their Web site. Murphy said the Coop considers that information the Coop's "intellectual property".
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What a bunch of petty jerkoffs they are at The Coop.
