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Harvard Bookstore: "We Own ISBN Numbers"

The Harvard Crimson ran a story last week about a student who was asked to leave the premises for writing down the prices of six textbooks at the Coop, Harvard's bookstore of record. The bookstore's president says that there's no official policy against students writing down information, but "we discourage people who are taking down a lot of notes." But what's more surprising, he tells the Crimson that the textbooks' ISBNs—which can be used to look up the same books online—are "the Coop's intellectual property." More »

4:34 PM on Mon Sep 24 2007
By Chris Walters
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Latest by Blueskylaw: The bookstore's president says that there's no official policy against students writing down information, but "we discourage people who are taking down a lot of notes." Soooo, Harvard is against information? more »