They say bad news comes in threes. Based on the last six months, the authors and publishers fighting copyright battles in higher education might agree.
Copyright holders lost another battle this week in their legal war with universities over the boundaries of educational “fair use” in the digital age. A district court judge on Wednesday issued a decision in Authors Guild v. HathiTrust, a year-long lawsuit over a shared digital repository based at the University of Michigan.
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