Patent ID: 8195571

Claim:
An unauthorized copying-prevention system for texts, the system comprising: a web-based system; a copy-prevention module in the web-based system, the module having a plurality of lines of computer code that implements a copy preventing method; a discussion board for a particular course that uses a particular academic text by a particular teaching professional wherein the academic text including a trademark; a module having a plurality of lines of computer code that require the particular teaching professional to incorporate the discussion board into a syllabus of the particular course in order to adopt the particular text in the syllabus and a module having a plurality of lines of computer code that requires a student to participate in the discussion board for the particular course in order to receive a predetermined percentage of the final grade for the particular course; a module having a plurality of lines of computer code that requires the student to one of purchase a new copy of the academic text and remit a separate payment when establishing acquisition of the academic text that is not a new copy in order to gain access to the discussion board and not forfeit the predetermined percentage of the final grade as established in the licensee's syllabus; and a module having a plurality of lines of computer code that distributes a portion of the net income from a percentage of student purchases to beneficiaries who enhance the academic freedom otherwise lost by adoption of the system.