Last week professor of engineering at the University of Louisiana – Lafayette and author of multiple engineering textbooks Russell Hibbeler filed suit in a Tennessee Federal Court against Pearson, alleging significant underpaid and/or unpaid royalties and charging the publisher with creating derivative works with permission and payment. (Hibbeler lives in Nashville.) The suit is of potentially broad interest given the extent but also the nature of Professor Hibbeler’s claims. In a 2015 audit from the Royalty Compliance Organization, Hibbeler says they discovered “significant underpayments and non- payments of royalties and other compensation due.” As part of the audit, “Pearson discovered […]