Paying protection money to Access Copyright Act not legitimate

Published October 10, 2005

Re: the opinion piece by Chrisopher Moore of Access Copyright (The Hill Times, Oct. 3) should sound familiar: pay us money and we will remove the threat that we represent.

The article contains considerable misinformation. The educational community isn't asking to get for free something that should be legitimately paid for. While the language of "exceptions" is always abused in the copyright debate, what we are really talking...