From: Jim O'Donnell <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2014 06:51:34 -0700

From Chronicle of Higher Education this week, a livelier and more
lawyered-up than usual quarrel about a publishing contract:

http://chronicle.com.proxy.library.georgetown.edu/article/Dispute-Over-Who-Will-Publish/145307/

The article is behind paywall, but the core of the issue is this:

"The dispute pits the Social Science History Association against Duke
University and its press, a leading publisher of academic journals. In
June 2012, the association told Duke it wanted to end their
longstanding agreement for the press to publish the group's journal,
Social Science History.  Duke balked, and in the spring of 2013 the
association sued the university for copyright infringement in federal
court in North Carolina. Now the fight has even spilled over into the
trademark realm, with Duke separately contesting a move by the
association to trademark both its name and the name of its journal."

The legal dispute is about contract language, but the underlying
question is the creation and management of intellectual property and
its value in a partnership between a learned society and a publisher
and what rights and expectations are created.

Jim O'Donnell
Georgetown