Copyright Permission: Get It...Or Get Yours

• In October 2005, Cann Copy & Printing and Tan Tien Publications were both sued in San Jose, Calif., by six publishers who hope to stop the two businesses from further infringement and to demand royalty payments for unauthorized uses of their materials.

• In November 2005 two separate actions were filed in Massachusetts. Gnomon Copy has allegedly reproduced copyrighted materials repeatedly without authorization for use by Northeastern University students. In the case of CopyCat Printing in Springfield, the publishers claim that this shop only obtained partial permissions for reproducing course materials for use at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. (For those of you who are “making an effort” to obtain permissions, this should give you a chill.)