I had an op-ed in Monday's Daily Trojan, the campus paper at USC, about the ominous anti-P2P message that USC's administration sent to the student body:
"Copyright infringement occurs whenever someone makes a copy of any copyrighted work – songs, videos, software, cartoons, photographs, stories, novels – without purchasing that copy from the copyright owner or obtaining permission some other way."
This is simply untrue – if it's true, we should lock the library doors and arrest any professor who turns up with handouts or anyone who forwards an e-mail. Copyright infringement occurs when you make an unlawful copy of a copyrighted work. But oftentimes when you copy in the course of scholarship, you make a copy in accordance with the law.
See also:
USC's bizarre, non-legal copyright policy
Universities put Hollywood ahead of students
