From: Laura Quilter <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2013 21:50:16 -0400
Well, these:
* Cambridge Univ Pr v. Becker (ongoing)
* Ambrose Vide Publishing & AIME v. UCLA (recently settled)
* Oxford University Press et al v. Delhi University (ongoing)
* Access Copyright v. York Univ (Canada) (ongoing)
I sort of recall some other litigation outside the US/Canada but it's
not coming to mind just yet. That's just the recent/current cases.
Of course Addison-Wesley v. NYU (SDNY 1983) also springs to mind, plus
various threats to various institutions over the years.
(And please note that in the Georgia State University case, the fact
that the publishers "did not seek damages" is not exactly a
demonstration of their good will so much as a demonstration of their
understanding of Constitutional law.)
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On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 4:09 PM, LIBLICENSE <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> From: Sandy Thatcher <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2013 22:33:41 -0500
>
> You say "regularly being sued." As far as I'm aware, the suit against
> Georgia State is the first copyright suit brought by publishers
> against any university. Previous suits were brought against commercial
> copyshops adjacent to university campuses. Do you know of any other
> suits by publishers against universities? And please note that the
> suit against GSU aimed only at an injunction against future illegal
> copying and did not seek damages for past infringements.
>
> Sandy Thatcher
>
>
> > From: Laura Quilter <[log in to unmask]>
> > Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2013 10:18:06 -0400
> >
> > Sandy,
> >
> > I take it that the problem is with university professors whose work is
> > directly related to (and partially funded by) their university jobs.
> > If a professor creates something unrelated to their job -- they teach
> > history of science; they wrote a popular song -- then conflict of
> > interest wouldn't really arise.
> >
> > Universities have often refrained from asserting ownership under
> > work-for-hire of faculty's teaching and scholarly works, out of
> > tradition and so forth, but if they are regularly being sued on those
> > works, then they might choose not to forego their own legal rights.
> >
> > Laura
> >
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> > Laura Markstein Quilter / [log in to unmask]
> > Librarian, Geek, Attorney, Teacher
> > Copyright and Information Policy Librarian
> > University of Massachusetts, Amherst
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