In Court, a University and Publishers Spar Over ‘Fair Use’ of Course Materials

by E Wayne Ross on March 18, 2010

The Chronicle: In Court, a University and Publishers Spar Over ‘Fair Use’ of Course Materials

Maybe you’re a professor who wants to use a chunk of copyrighted material in your course this spring. Or perhaps you’re a librarian or an academic publisher. If so, the much-followed Google Book Search settlement is not the only legal case you need to be watching. A federal case involving publishers and a state-university system, Cambridge University Press et al. v. Patton et al., should produce a ruling soon, and its stakes are high.