The complicated Georgia State University court case exploring the extent to which educational fair use applies to digital excerpts continues, with the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals overturning portions of Judge Orinda Evans’s 350-page ruling from 2012 and remanding the case back to Judge Evans. Finding that “the District Court’s fair use analysis was in part erroneous,” the Appeals Court threw out the awarding of nearly $3 million in legal fees to GSU as well. Though the name plaintiffs are Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, and Sage Publications, the case was brought — and funded — by the Association […]