Judge Orinda Evans of the Northern District of Georgia published her 350-page ruling late Friday on the closely-watched copyright infringement case originally brought in 2008 against Georgia State University by Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, and SAGE Publications. (Actual costs were shared by the Copyright Clearance Center and the AAP, leading the judge to “infer that CCC and AAP organized the litigation and recruited the three plaintiffs to participate.” The ruling–finding the university did infringe in five cases (out of 75 claimed infringements)–has enough room in it to allow most interested parties to claim victory, dissatisfaction, or both, depending […]
