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Cases Update

March 11, 2024 11:16 AM
Rounding Up Four Completed Cases
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D’Youville Case is D’ismissed but may not be D’iscontinued

November 08, 2022 03:33 PM
Court Grants D'Youville's Motion to Dismiss But Allows Plaintiff Professors to Amend Complaint
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Completed Case Roundup

September 12, 2022 08:25 AM
Tying Up Loose Ends: Creative Commons Licenses, Copyrighted Credentialing Exams, and Counterfeit Textbooks
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Chegg Denies Infringement Allegations

January 24, 2022 03:51 PM
Chegg Responds to Lawsuit Filed by Pearson Education
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Textbook Company Gives Chegg Another Problem to Solve

September 27, 2021 09:51 AM
Pearson Education Files Suit Against Chegg for Copyright Infringement
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Textbook Company Claims No-Foul Play

August 09, 2021 11:11 AM
Textbook Distributor Hits Back Against Publishers' Infringement Claims
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Teacher's Copyright Suit Continues

August 02, 2021 04:40 PM
Amended Complaint Has Been Filed and Answered
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Infringement in the Lab

February 22, 2021 09:12 AM
University of Tulsa Professor Files Suit against the University for Alleged Infringement
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Columbia University and Encyclopedia Foundation Continue Faceoff

September 28, 2020 08:51 AM
Both Sides Claim the Legacy and Intellectual Property Rights Associated with the Encyclopaedia Iranica
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Academic Publishers Unite to Enforce Copyrights

October 21, 2019 12:00 PM
Alleged Copyright Infringement by Selling Textbooks Online
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Academic Publishers Combat Textbook Counterfeiting

September 02, 2019 12:00 PM
Publishers File Claim against Unidentified Defendants for Selling Textbooks Online
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University Goes on the Offensive Over Copyright Ownership

August 26, 2019 12:00 PM
The First Chapter in the Lawsuit against Encyclopaedia Iranica Foundation
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Sage Sued for Infringing Photographer's Copyright

May 25, 2018 02:16 PM
Prokos v. Sage Publications Inc., et al. Case No. 1:18-cv-04194-AT (S.D.N.Y. 2018).
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ResearchGate Settles With Three Publishers

April 20, 2018 02:34 PM
Last year, a coalition of multiple publishers alleged infringement of millions of works by ResearchGate (a popular networking site for academics), with a few of those publishers even going so far as to file a lawsuit against them. This case continues, with a Munich court holding their first hearing just days ago.
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McGraw-Hill Saved by Standing in Suit on Stock Photo Copyright Infringement

April 20, 2018 02:28 PM
On April 16, 2018, the United States Supreme Court denied certiorari on a case between DRK Photo, a stock photo licensing agency, and McGraw-Hill, an academic publisher, making the September 2017 holding of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals the final word on this case.
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Scholarly Publishing Giants File Infringement Suit against ResearchGate

October 13, 2017 03:28 PM
Publishers Elsevier and the American Chemical Society have alleged that the popular academic networking site, ResearchGate, has committed copyright infringement by sharing copyrighted research papers with their users, according to an article at www.sciencemag.org. ResearchGate claims more than 13 million users who can use personal pages to upload and share material including published papers or book chapters. These uploads, now comprising millions of works, are usually only accessible by paid subscription.
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Textbook Publishers Sue Follett Over Counterfeit Textbooks

July 31, 2017 03:54 PM
Cengage Learning v. Follett, 17-cv-04672 (S.D.N.Y.)
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FedEx Case Dismissed

March 27, 2017 04:29 PM
Great Minds v. FedEx, 16-CV-1462 (E.D.N.Y. 2016)
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