In the 1990s, the big cases were Basic Books Inc. v. Kinko's Graphic Corporation (1991) and Princeton University Press v. Michigan Document Service (1996) which put an end to royalty - free photocopying for
class use of copyrighted materials, for, the courts rule, the course readers were being sold for a profit and were competing against the original books (with 5 - 30 % of the... [more]