Tuesday, June 7, 2011

Cambridge University Press et al v. Patton et al

Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, Inc. and Sage Publications, Inc. are suing Georgia State University.


Here is a very brief synopsis of the suit from the publishers' point of view:


http://www.publishers.org/issues/1/19/


The higher Ed trade press weighs in here:


http://chronicle.com/article/Out-of-Fear-Institutions-Lock/127701/

http://www.insidehighereducation.com/news/2011/05/23/university_presses_and_academic_publishers_keeping_pressing_georgia_state_on_copyright_issues


Kevin Smith, a blogger at Duke, is afraid of the situation and refers to it as a nightmare scenario:


http://blogs.library.duke.edu/scholcomm/2011/05/13/a-nightmare-scenario-for-higher-education/

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