Academic Publishers Sue Georgia State University Over Digital Rights
April 17th, 2008
Three prominent academic publishers allege in a lawsuit that Georgia State University, in Atlanta, is violating the “fair use” provision of copyright law by disseminating whole chapters of copyrighted material to students in electronic course packs. These course packs are becoming increasingly common — accounting perhaps for half of all syllabus reading at American colleges and universities. At issue is whether the “big, expensive and bound” business model of academic publishing can persist into the future. The New York Times (Apr. 16, 2008)
Tags: academic publishing, Cambridge University Press, digital rights, electronic course packs, Georgia State University, Oxford University Press, Sage Publications