Comments on: Lawsuit on “Electronic Course Packs”

By: Georgia State Strikes Back

Georgia State Strikes Back — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 14:03:38 +0000

[...] the university presses that sued Georgia State over the use of electronic readings offered their students through the campus CMS, department [...]

By: Marc Gartler

Marc Gartler — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 15:57:18 +0000

Claire Stewart has provided some excellent analysis at http://www.library.northwestern.edu/blog/nulcopyright/2008/04/what_does_the_lawsuit_against.html

By: Kathleen Wallace

Kathleen Wallace — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 20:33:49 +0000

Universities are paying through the nose many times over to use material that they themselves already own and whose employees may have created in the first place. Academic authors need to become much more savvy about the kinds of publishing agreements they sign. See “Marketing Ideas: Reshaping Academic Publishing in a Digital World” at http://www.scienceprogress.org/2008/04/marketing-ideas/

By: Monica McCormick

Monica McCormick — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 18:41:26 +0000

A bit more information: The Association of American University Presses (AAUP) has issued a press release in support of the suit, and posted a copy of the complaint.

Both are available from aaupnet.org (look in the top left corner for links to these docs).

And by the way, this is explicitly about e-reserves. The complaint mentions Blackboard/Web-CT, for example.

By: Monica McCormick

Monica McCormick — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 17:53:48 +0000

Other information sources:

The Association of American Publishers supports the suit. Their statement:

http://www.publishers.org/main/PressCenter/GeorgiaStateLawsuitRelease.htm

Charles Bailey’s Digital Koans blog: http://tinyurl.com/44ssze (with further links to lots more)

By: gps

gps — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 16:40:44 +0000

Caveat lector posted…http://www.publishers.org/main/PressCenter/GeorgiaStateLawsuitRelease.htm