How a Lawsuit Over Electronic Reserves Could Affect Colleges
From the Chronicle of Higher Education:
Laura N. Gasaway, associate dean for academic affairs and a professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Law, says that a lawsuit recently filed against Georgia State University regarding electronic reserves could have implications for how colleges distribute course material online. The suit, brought by three publishers — Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, and SAGE Publications — alleges that Georgia State professors infringed publishers’ copyrights by “inviting students” to download, view, and print material from thousands of copyrighted works. Ms. Gasaway’s remarks assume the details of Georgia State’s practices, as described in the complaint, are accurate.