Academic Publishing
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D’Youville Case is D’ismissed but may not be D’iscontinued
Court Grants D'Youville's Motion to Dismiss But Allows Plaintiff Professors to Amend Complaint
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Completed Case Roundup
Tying Up Loose Ends: Creative Commons Licenses, Copyrighted Credentialing Exams, and Counterfeit Textbooks
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Chegg Denies Infringement Allegations
Chegg Responds to Lawsuit Filed by Pearson Education
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Textbook Company Gives Chegg Another Problem to Solve
Pearson Education Files Suit Against Chegg for Copyright Infringement
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Textbook Company Claims No-Foul Play
Textbook Distributor Hits Back Against Publishers' Infringement Claims
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ResearchGate Settles With Three Publishers
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
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
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
Cengage Learning v. Follett, 17-cv-04672 (S.D.N.Y.)
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Publisher Exceeding Limited Licenses
Stack v. McGraw-Hill, 17-cv-01689 (S.D. N.Y.); Greenberg v. McGraw-Hill, 17-cv-00436 (E.D. Pa.); Grant Heilman Photography, Inc. v. McGraw-Hill, 12-cv-02061 (E.D. Pa.)
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Former Student Sues Artist’s Heirs For The Right To Include Copyrighted Artwork In Master’s Thesis
Solomon v. O’Connor, 17-cv-1011 (D. Mass.)
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Infringing on Tragedy?
Altman v. University Press of Mississippi, 16-cv-00883 (S.D. Miss.)
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FedEx Helping Schools? Or Infringing Copyrights?
Great Minds v. FedEx, 16-CV-1462 (E.D.N.Y. 2016)
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Are Photographs of the Presidential Seal (and Other Iconic American Symbols) Copyrightable?
Sohm v. McGraw-Hill, 16-cv-4255
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Gene Kelly’s estate must wait to pursue copyright infringement claim
Kelly v. University Press of Mississippi, 16-cv-02960 (C.D. Cal.)
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