4 page 2 -The Michigan Daily-Monday, November 30, 1987 U' and (Continued from Page 1) copy for every original. Pirating upsets manufacturers because their software developers lose royalties and additional revenue that could be used for research. Universities view pirating in the same light as plagiarism. Computer software "is intellectual property, and that's the foundation of the university," said Virginia Rezmierski, assistant to the vice- provost for the University's In- formation Technology Division. Software manufacturers have abandoned hopes of stopping piracy on their own. "Ultimately, there is nothing you can do," said Casey Green, a professor at UCLA's Higher Education Research Institute. "The issue is students and faculty industi acting responsibly." Software manufacturers used to "protect" their programs by locking them on a disk and preventing them from being moved or copied. ALTHOUGH SOME programs such as Macwrite can still be found with protection at the University's computing centers, Komisar said Claris has stopped protecting its software because pur- chasers need to make a back-up copy of their programs in case the original malfunctions. Besides, software protection can be broken for most programs. A program called 'Copy 2 Mac' breaks protection on the Macintosh programs available at the University's Computing Centers. It's one of the cheapest programs to 7 } .w8!. . . ...... . . . . y w-.-.- +-p. y-. .. _.---..... * BUSINE S }k , F BUSINESS LEADERS of Tomorrow.-..- If you are considering * - management studies, let us tell you about T HE MICHIGAN Come to an informational session presented by the Business School fight piracy buy ($39.95 retail) and order forms for it can be found in computing magazines. Linda Swanson, sales manager for Central Point Software, makers of 'Copy 2 Mac,' said the company intends it to be used to make back- up copies of software, not for piracy. Local software stores fear users' temptation to pirate and don't sell the program. "We don't want to encourage software theft," said Kent Kloster, sales manager for Complete Computing Center. ALTHOUGH software manu- factures can prevent piracy at universities by no longer selling programs to them, they understand that preventing piracy is difficult and are approaching the problem from a different angle. EDUCOM, a consortium of more than 450 computer-minded universities, collaborated with ADAPSO, a computer software trade association, this spring to make a pamphlet that spells. out the ethical uses of software and alternatives to pirating. "If your university demonstrates that it is trying to deal with the problem, then a software company is more willing to work with the university," said Steve Gilbert, vice- president of program development at EDUCOM. Software manufacturers say there is a specific way for universities to deal with the problem. "The responsibility of the university is to make sure that copies that the university has purchased are handled with the licensing agreement and U.S. copy- right laws," Komisar said. THE LAWS, which state that software is private property and is not to be copied or modified, must be "prominently displayed to every user," said Komisar. The University seems to be complying to these laws as best as it can. Disks at computer clusters have labels which read, "Property of U of M Computing Center." The University seal appears on the screen for its programs before they are opened. In order to use University programs, students must complete and sign check-out forms which say, "It is illegal and against computing center policy to copy licensed programs. You are responsible for items you check out. You will be assessed a fee for materials not returned." And there are numerous signs posted around the computing centers repeating the message. The University believes a sincere effort to make students aware that piracy is illegal will appease software manufacturers, thus improving the chances that the University will get better contracts. "As vendors see us taking them seriously, they will work with us," said Rezmirski. BUT ARE THE students taking the University seriously? Some say increasing awareness of piracy may not be effective. "I don't think students really read the signs," said an LSA first-year student who is as a monitor at the computer cluster in Mosher-Jordan. Jeff said he did not see any signs in the CAEN labs and didn't realize that copying software was illegal. "If there were signs, I'm sure I would have thought twice about it," he said. IN BRIEF Compiled from Associated Press reports Korean Air jetliner vanishes SEOUL, South Korea - A Korean Air jetliner carrying 115 people on a flight from the Middle East vanished yesterday somewhere near Burma and apparently crashed into the sea or thick jungle, officials said. An air operations official at Seoul's Kimpo International Airport said KAL Flight 858 from Baghdad, the capital of Iraq, to Seoul was missing without a trace and officials were trying to find out what happened. "It just disappeared," said an official, who wished to withhold his name. KAL officials said it appeared the three-engine Boeing 707 had crashed, although they would not rule out the possibility of hijacking. Airline of- ficials also said a bomb may have destroyed the jet. The jet was carrying 95 passengers and a crew of 20. All but two peo- ple were South Korean, officials said. Hostage says envoy was held with him in Paris apartment PARIS -A French hostage just freed in Lebanon said yesterday that Terry Waite, the Archbishop of Canterbury's special envoy, was in the room next to him during his captivity and that American hostages were suffering greatly. Roger Auque, a free-lance journalist, was released Friday in Beirut by his Shiite Moslem kidnappers along with Jean-Louis Normandin, a lighting engineer for the Antenne 2 television network. In an interview on French television,Auque said Waite also was being held by the Revolutionary Justice Organization. "I knew that Terry Waite was held by the same people as me, the same kidnappers, and was in the room next to mine in the apartment where I was held," he said. Auque was optimistic about more releases soon. Dearborn elects first Arab- American to school board DEARBORN - Alan Amen's election to a four-year term on Dear- born's school board last month has given Arab-Americans nationwide hope for the future. Although the city has one of the largest Arab Muslim communities in North America, an Arab-American had never before been elected to public office here. Amen's election is "a milestone for us," said Terry Ahwal, coordinator of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee's Detroit office. "It's like a black mayor in Mississippi." Arab-American political activists now hope to build on Amen's suc- cess and expand it to a national level. Turkey holds general elections ANKARA, Turkey - Premier Turgut Ozal's Motherland Party, fa- vored to keep its parliamentary majority, took an early lead yesterday in Turkey's first civilian-run general elections since the military ceded power in 1983. A pre-election public opinion poll that indicated Ozal would maintain a majority also shQwed that the main opposition Social Democratic Pop- ulist Party was expected to make substantial gains in the 450-seat, one- house Parliament. The Social Democrats are led by Erdal Inonu, a nuclear physicist- turned-politician. With 20 percent of the ballots counted, the Motherland Party had 36 percent of the vote, according to state radio and television. The Social Democrats had 23.5 percent, followed by the Truth Path Party. EXTRAS 1 Place: Date: Time: South Quad -West Lounge Thursday, Dec. 3 6:30 - 7:30 -r ...... Every engineering student signs an honor code which, Geister said, implies that copying software is improper. "The honor code is not bad for exams, but... " said Jeff. And Geister said students should know better. "Students that walk into the University these days are computer literate, and part of that Copies, Binding, Passport photos. literacy is knowing that software is S40 E. 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