Do you give electronic copies of articles to your students? Major publishers are suing one university for doing so. From today's Inside Higher Ed:
"Three publishers sued Georgia State University Tuesday, charging that digitally distributed course materials were violating their copyrights, /The New York Times/ <http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/16/technology/16school.html?_r=1&oref=slogin> reported. The case could be the online equivalent of litigation waged by publishers years ago against printed coursepacks --- although those suits were generally filed against copy shops. Georgia State told the Times that it hadn't seen the suit and couldn't comment, but the publishers' lawyer told the newspaper that the university had asserted its rights to use the material. The lawyer said that several other universities, contacted with similar complaints, had agreed to change policies. Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, and Sage Publications filed the suit." http://insidehighered.com/news/2008/04/16/qt Chris Green York U. Toronto --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
