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Syracuse Responds and the CASE Act Marches On
University Gives Its Response to Infringement Claim
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University Goes on the Offensive Over Copyright Ownership
The First Chapter in the Lawsuit against Encyclopaedia Iranica Foundation
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University Hit With Infringement Suit Over YouTube Video
Yesh Music Files Another Claim against Another University
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Author Voluntarily Dismisses Infringement Case Against University
A Conclusion to Another Case with Dr. Bell
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University Advertisement Leads to Infringement Suit
Yesh Music ("Yesh") Filed Suit against Amity University ("Amity") for Alleged Copyright Infringement
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Syracuse University Sued over Images of Basketball Team
Photographer Files Suit against Syracuse University
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Winning May Not Be Normal, But Copyright Infringement Seems To Be
On March 11, Dr. Keith Bell filed a complaint alleging copyright and trademark infringement against Stanford University and its former Senior Associate Athletic Director, Kevin Blue (jointly, the “Defendants”).
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Beauty is in the Eye of the University
Artist Billie Lawless is suing Cleveland State University for, among other claims, breach of contract and violation of copyright. Since 2008, the modern artist has maintained a contract with the university to display his sculpture, titled The Politician: A Toy on its campus.
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The Cats2D Suit is Dismissed
In September 2018, Andrew Yeckel filed a lawsuit for copyright infringement against his former employer, the University of Minnesota, as well as the research lab director, Jeffrey Derby. (The details of the complaint are found in this prior blog post).
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Graduate Student Research Lands University of California in Copyright Lawsuit
Medical Research Company Files Claim against University
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Appeals Court Remands GSU Copyright Case ... Again
Although Georgia State University has been embroiled in a bitter copyright controversy with academic publishers over its electronic course reserve program for more than a decade now, the case shows no signs of coming to a resolution anytime soon. In October 2018, the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals issued its long-awaited decision as the latest development in the ongoing legal saga. The lawsuit has been pending since April 2008, when Cambridge University Press, SAGE Publications, and Oxford University Press sued GSU for copyright infringement. The fight has centered on GSU’s E-Reserve practices, and its alleged failure to pay for the use of many of the publishers’ works. Instead, GSU claimed fair use and refused to adopt the policies that would placate the publishers. The case has since been decided, appealed, remanded, appealed again, and is now once more headed to the district court on remand from the 11th Circuit.
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Who Actually Owns The Old Cats?
On September 7, 2018, Andrew Yeckel filed suit in the U.S. District Court of Minnesota alleging copyright infringement by Jeffrey Derby and the University of Minnesota (the “University”) for use of a software program called Cats2D. Yeckel is a researcher in the field of fluid dynamics and a developer of software algorithms. He alleges that by the end of 1993 he and a partner, Ralph Goodwin, “developed a substantially complete multi-physics software program that . . . possessed all of the core elements and most of the features found in the final version” of Cats2D used by Derby and the University.
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College Sued for Copyright Infringement Relating to Credentialing Exams
National Federation of Professional Trainers v. Carrington College, 18-cv-47
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What do a Brewery, an Abbey, and a University Have in Common? According to Artist's Complaint, Copyright Infringement.
Pro se plaintiff, Cynthia Foss (“Foss”), is a Massachusetts-based artist. On July 11, 2018, Foss filed suit in The Trial Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts against a number of defendants including Northeastern University (“Northeastern”). Foss alleges in her Complaint that she created a “photographic-illustrative” work of a local abbey refectory “commissioned by the Defendant Spencer [Brewery] and [St. Joseph’s] Abbey . . . .” Foss claims to have “retained all intellectual property rights” in the work, referred to in the pleading as “Refectory Long Stained Glass Wall.”
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Court Confirms Sovereign Immunity for State Universities in Copyright Suit
The copyright infringement case between Antti Porkka and the University of South Florida (USF) and was resolved on February 16, 2018. Porkka alleged that USF made use of a “digitally identical … ‘H’ Logo” in their “Navigator” program, to help enroll “Kids and Families” in the Health Insurance Marketplace. However, USF was able to successfully defend against the suit by claiming Eleventh Amendment immunity to the suit as an arm of the state.
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University of Miami Sued Over Professor PowerPoint Presentation
To say that university professors regularly give presentations at conferences would be an understatement. It's an indispensable part of what they do. But when Dr. Kysha Harriell, Clinical Assistant Professor and Program Director of Athletic Training at the University of Miami, gave a PowerPoint presentation at a 2017 conference organized by the Southeast Athletic Trainers' Association (SEATA), she may have landed herself, her employer and the conference organizers in legal hot water.
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College Football Twitter Accounts Temporarily Suspended
The day ahead of national signing day, the official Twitter account of the Texas Longhorns was suspended for about 10 hours. On signing day itself, Georgia, Missouri, and South Florida also all had their football accounts suspended temporarily.
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University Sued for Image of Houston Skyline
Jim Olive Photography d/b/a Photolive, Inc. vs. The Univ. of Houston Sys., 2017-84942 (Court 295, Harris Cnty., Dec. 22, 2017).
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