Also in court, on Tuesday afternoon the publisher plaintiffs filed to appeal the ruling in the Georgia State University copyright case. In a joint statement, the publishers said the court’s recent rulings “shift radically from long-accepted fair use principles and introduce, among other errors, unsustainable policies regarding the proportion of a work not readily available for digital licensing that can be digitally copied without restriction. We have no alternative but to appeal, to protect our authors’ copyrights and advocate for a balanced and workable solution.” The AAP reiterated their position that “there is no legal basis for according less copyright […]
