Applied Abstractions: Lessig frustrated with Kopinor conference: "A second example is Kopinor itself, which collects a fee from universities, school, companies etc. meant to compensate authors for works copied for studying (which is permissible under Norwegian law.) Yet, most of what is copied in Norwegian universities is foreign material, which they make little effort to redistribute. Also, they refuse to take into account the increasing amount of material that is available free for non-commercial use (such as all of ACMs material, for instance) and thus take a reduction in their fees. Incidentally, the money is distributed according to criteria somewhat similar to the Norwegian authors' association mentioned above."
From Espens Blog.
My comment: I agree 100 percent in the word above. I have really problems to see any justification of Kopinors activity. Sorry.
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