Last Friday, US Northern District Judge Orinda Evans clarified the ambiguous May ruling in the closely-watched copyright infringement case originally brought in 2008 against Georgia State University. Ruling on the relief for the five cases of copyright infringement in May’s 350-page ruling, Judge Evans essentially declared GSU the real winner in the case, ordering the plaintiffs to pay their legal fees. Which raises an interesting question that no one has been able to answer for us yet: Though the case was brought by Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, and SAGE Publications, the legal costs of trying the case have […]
