If the university cares about giving people information, then what is a larger source of information? Libraries are already exempt from certain aspects of intellectual property law. And educational use is one aspect of the test for fair use the courts use when determining if a use is fair use.

So it is weird possibly only because you or other people have been indoctrinated into thinking it is so, when in reality, its not far off the mark.

[–] immibis@social.immibis.com 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@dragonfly4933 It's a source of information that gets the university sued, that's what. Universities don't want to be sued. Therefore they don't put huge libraries of copyrighted material in a place where they can be freely accessed. End of story.

[–] dragonfly4933@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm not saying it's "legal", it's certainly not. I'm just saying there is some framework in the law that allows for certain kinds of use beyond non educational uses.

That people know it's obviously illegal, that a university redistributing information freely, is part of the problem. People should be much more biased in favor of less copyright law.

[–] immibis@social.immibis.com 1 points 1 year ago

@dragonfly4933 Universities won't run illegal-file sharing systems, because they are illegal. End of story. I'm sure they exist at universities, but not by universities. Whether copyright law should be weaker is irrelevant to the question of whether universities operate illegal-file sharing servers.