Flap over Carnegie Mellon newsgroups.

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    • Subject Terms:
      PENNSYLVANIA; PITTSBURGH (Pa.); UNITED States
    • Subject Terms:
      CARNEGIE-Mellon University
    • Subject Terms:
      LOWRY, Charles
    • Abstract:
      Examines the debate over copyright, academic freedom and obscenity laws after Carnegie Mellon University's removal of sexually explicit binary newsgroups from its electronic bulletin board in November 1994. Why the university has decided to allow the newsgroups to remain in text-only form; Lack of a precedent for the situation; Comments by university librarian Charles Lowry.