Judge Denies Publishers Request for Relief in Georgia State U.E -Reserves Case

August 12, 2012

11 August 2012. There was more good news for Georgia State University and more bad news for the publisher plaintiffs on Friday in a closely watched lawsuit over the use of copyrighted material in e-reserves. In May, Judge Orinda Evans of the U.S. District Court in Atlanta handed down a ruling that dismissed all but five of the copyright-infringement claims brought by Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, and SAGE Publishers against the university. On Friday afternoon, Judge Evans issued an order denying the plaintiffs’ request for injunctive and declaratory relief for those five infringements. She ordered the defendants to make sure that the university’s copyright policies are “not inconsistent” with her May ruling. She also awarded Georgia State “reasonable attorney’s fees,” as well as other costs to be determined

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