Copyright Scenarios

Publishing Issues

In 1982 several publishing companies brought a law suit against NYU, nine faculty members, and a photocopying establishment. The Association of American Publishers which coordinated the law suit on behalf of the publishing companies sought an injunction to keep the professors from copying course anthologies. The publishers reached an out-of-court settlement with the defendants thus requiring the university to appropriate, promulgate, and invoke more stringent copyright rules.

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