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Last Friday the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals handed down its opinion on the Georgia State (GSU) eReserves Case. The Cambridge University Press et. al. v. Patton ruling (the case’s formal nam…
Those of us who heard the oral arguments in the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals last November, in which the publishers appeal of the District Court ruling favoring fair use in their copyright infringement lawsuit against Georgia State was heard, mostly expected a discouraging result from the Appellate panel. An initial or cursory reading of … Continue reading GSU appeal ruling — the more I read, the better it seems →
Good old Access Copyright.
Copyright MOOC couldn't get permission to use Bielstein chapter.
By most accounts, it was a rough day in court for the defendants in the Georgia State University e-reserves case.
Is it just greed? Is that what is behind the lawsuit over e-reserves and copyright infringement that publishers continue to pursue against Georgia State University? Yesterday Publishers Weekly published a short item reporting that the Copyright Clearance Center, which is helping to bankroll the GSU lawsuit, paid out a record amount of royalty monies to … Continue reading What’s up? →
IRRO has sent missives to over 400 colleges across the country asking them to pay up and sign a licence to legally photocopy parts of books.
Back in October last year, we wrote about Costa Rican students taking to the streets to defend their right to photocopy otherwise...
We spent a fair amount of time last year writing about Access Copyright, the Canadian copyright collection group that collects fees from...
Cruising to be the next GSU?
Okay, this is really quite unfortunate. In 2011, we wrote about an important copyright case involving three publishers suing Georgia...
Not only did publishers not get the injunctive relief they sought in a closely watched case over e-reserves, last week they paid the tab.
To the surprise of no one, I think, the plaintiff publishers in the Georgia State litigation filed a notice of appeal on Monday. There has already been considerable coverage of this decision, in, for example, Inside Higher Ed, the Chronicle of Higher Education, and Library Journal. The actual Notice of Appeal is a very dull … Continue reading A not-very-appealing appeal →
On August 10, Judge Orinda Evans filed her final order for relief in the Georgia State University e-reserve case, flatly rejecting the plaintiff publishers' sweeping proposal and, in a stunning development, ordering the publishers to pay the defendants' attorneys' costs.
Canadian supreme-court decision upholding fair dealing for many educational uses, eviscerating Access Copyright.
[NOTE: This 2012 ruling has been appealed and then re-ruled. For the latest information, see my post on the 2016 ruling.] I recently read the final, 350-page ruling in the GSU case and summarized i…