Christine,
I was asking myself the exact same thing so I did a little digging. Though
I am certainly no lawyer (take this with several grains of salt) there
appears to be some strong, potentially related case law where online
published terms of service have been enforced (however, not
That site Scott indicated looks interesting. However, I have a basic question.
Isn't it illegal to make a special price for one group of customers? As I
recall, the institutional price does not in fact always include PPR.
Individual purchases disk for reasonable price but waives legal right to
Well, Judy...it sucks, put it isn't illegal, as far as I'm aware.
There continues to be a fair amount of confusion about the
PPR/institutional pricing gambit... Here's the deal:
Some distributors charge higher prices to institutions (or others) because
they bundle items in their catalogs with
From the POV of a producer/distributor, I'd don't think its
unreasonable at all to expect an institution to pay a much higher
price than an individual. For me, the cost of the physical DVD is next
to nothing - I'm selling the intellectual content that's encoded on
the disk. If a home
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*Subject: **Re: [Videolib] [Videonews] Here we go again...*
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Well, Judy...it sucks, put it isn't illegal, as far as I'm aware.
There continues to be a fair