A federal judge in Atlanta has ordered publishers who sued Georgia State University and the state Board of Regents over copyright violation claims to pay the state’s legal fees and expenses for four years of litigation.
U.S. District Senior Judge Orinda Evans ruled Aug. 10 that reasonable legal fees were justified under copyright law that allows prevailing parties to collect their legal expenses. Evans declared GSU and the Regents the prevailing parties because she found infringement in only 5 of 99 claims made by a consortium of publishers that included Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press Inc., and Sage Publications Inc.
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