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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 18, 1974)
Copy machine use could be illegal A case before the U. S. Supreme Court this week may result in re moval or restricted use of coin- operated copying machines in lib raries. The action was expected to be heard Tuesday. A leading medical publishing firm initiated the action, saying that the photocopies are a violation of the “fair use concept of the basic copyright law which allows re stricted copying of material. Should the high court not find for the defendants, two federal lib raries, the TAMU library might not be able to keep the coin-operated copiers currently available to stu dents and faculty. Depending on the material, some office copies might even fall under the illegal category. If the copiers were allowed to re main, says libraries director Dr. Irene Hoadly ofTAMU, they would probably be used in conjunction with a records system to compute fees in accordance with the required Texas Rep indicted on state fund abuse payment of royalties on copyrighted books and articles. Another alternative, depending on interpretation and outcome of the case, would have TAMU and other libraries in America not copy ing at all. Handwritten copies of books and articles would have to re place the convenience of almost in stant reproduction available through photocopiers, notes Dr. Hoadley. But libraries would not be the only “copiers” affected. Any person, such as a student, would no longer be able to legally copy a page from a copyrighted work without paying the royalty. Even persons who have private book collections and wish to copy a few pages for a friend might be in violation of the law if they used a copying machine. “This will put a crimp on any kind of cooperation among libraries in Texas and the United States, re marked the TAMU director. “TAMU might have to start buy ing more material instead of borrow ing the sources and copying them or having the other libraries copy the material and send it to us,” she exp lained. Over half of the requests sent to TAMU by other institutions are for photocopied material, most of it copyrighted, notes Dr. Hoadley. The basis of the case involves just such practices in which federal lib raries copied medical material and sold it to users for a fee. Other legal action is also in the works in which plaintiffs contend that hook-ups to a central system would also be a violation of fair use. License arrangements between the government and libraries or higher costs of subscriptions and books to insure payment of fees might result, said Dr. Hoadley. Saturday Night: Jess Demaine and Country Music Revue From 9 - 1 p.m. STAMPEDE Every Thursday Nite (ALL BRANDS BEER 35 cants) AUSTIN (AP) — Rep. Greg Mon toya, D-Elsa, was indicted Tuesday on charges that he misapplied state hinds through his payroll as a House member. Montoya issued a statement at the office of his lawyer, former Sen. Jim Bates of Edinburg, proclaiming his innocence. “I have done no wrong as a state representative. I am sure a jury will find me innocent,” Montoya said. He also has claimed a female former employe had gone to Austin Dist. Atty. Bob Smith in an attempt to discredit him. If convicted under the new “theft of services” law, Montoya could be fined up to $5,000 and sent to prison for two to 10 years. Last week the grand jury heard testimony from three men who H ouse payroll records show had been employed by Montoya at one time or another as “district secret ary.” One of the men, Victor Rameriz, 49, is still listed on the House payroll as a district secretary for Montoya but told reporters he was “self-employed. Bond for Montoya was set at $5,000, but Dist. Court Judge Mace Thurman released him on personal recognizance. The two-count indictment alleges that between Aug. 1 and Oct. 7 Montoya diverted the services of Olivia Silva to the benefit of Graciela Montoya. It also alleges that between Jan. 1 and Nov. 1 Montoya misapplied state funds by paying Ramirez Mar cello Cavazos, Joe Garcia, Fer nando Silva, and Olivia Silva. These people were paid for secretarial ser vices “when in truth and in fact none of said persons had the secretarial plications of employment and were unable to perform the services for which they were paid, a fact well known to the said Greg Montoya, the indictment said. Montoya, 57, was re-elected in November to a third term in the House representing Hidalgo, Kenedy, Kleberg and Willacy Counties. When reports first came out Dec. 4 that he was under inves tigation for paying state funds to private employes, Montoya said “I have never done that in my life. ” He is a former school teacher who operates an Elsa auto supply firm, with his wife, and says he has farm ing interests. Before testifying before the grand jury last Thursday Cavozos said dur ing the month he was employed by Montoya he “just drove his car once in a while, for just a few days. ” Gar cia, 19, is shown on house payroll records as having been employed as a district secretary in September and October. He told reporters he clipped newspapers and set up meetings for Montoya. According to House records, the five employes have received a total of $4,110 this year, with Ramirez getting $2,500. Smith said the new theft of ser vices law, passed in 1973 as part of the new state penal code, makes the employer — but not the employe — subject to criminal penalties. The district attorney obtained convictions in 1972 of former House Speaker Gus Mutscher and two as sociates on charges of conspiracy to accept a bribe in connection with the Sharpstown stock scandal. He also successfully prosecuted several other legislators in connection with nepotism and stamp stealing scan dals. Bryan duo linked with Houston fire skills as was indicated on their ap- | r POLLY ANN’S GIFT SHOP CHRISTMAS SPECIAL 10% DISCOUNT WITH A&M ID CARD OR COUPON 2200 SOUTH COLLEGE TUESDAY-SATURDAY 11-6 822-3251 Two Bryan girls, both 13, have been tentatively identified as the possible victims of a fire which gut ted an apartment building in Hous ton Dec. 8, according to the Harris County Medical Examiner Dr. Joseph Jackimczyck. No official word of the girls iden tity will be released until medical charts and dental x-rays are studied, according to the arson division of the Houston fire department. That official word is expected today. “We have been having numerous calls from worried parents of runa way girls who think their daughters were the two discovered,” a spokesman said. The girls possibly had run away in the past, Knowles said, but the par ents had never reported them. Since there hadn’t been any record of runaways of the girls, the police here haven t any records, Knowles said. It began Dec. 4 when two boys who were possibly with the missing girls, were reported missing, PV A&M (Continued from page 1) his assistant Dr. Tom Adair said the matter was a concern between Wil liams and Dr. Alvin I. Thomas, president of Prairie View A&M. Black said he felt that Prairie View’s students “didn’t deserve less than those of other universities. He specifically mentioned hand ball courts, a golf course and bowl ing lanes in his list of deficiencies at Prairie View. Robert Cherry, assistant to Pres ident Jack K. Williams, said the funds for such facilities come from student fees and that the legislature does not allocate money for these purposes. Black said that this is not enough, because most of the student popula tion at Prairie View is black and from low-income families who can not afford high student service fees. The onlyrecourse, he felt, was to ask the legislature for the needed funds. 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