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Elsevier and American Chemical Society remove 200,000 articles from ResearchGate (ChemistryWorld)
The academic social networking site ResearchGate has removed about 200,000 files from among the research papers it publicly shares, prompted by a spate of new copyright complaints from Elsevier and the American Chemical Society (ACS). ResearchGate, which...

Legal Experts On Pearson V. Chegg And Why It Could Be A Huge Deal (Forbes)
The essence of Pearson’s legal claim is that Chegg is engaging in “massive” violation of copyrights held by Pearson because Chegg has published, and sold, answers to the tests and practice questions Pearson has in its textbooks. Pearson argues that the...

Something a little new for me: I was asked for an interview on Klopotek Radio a few months ago and the episode has just been released.  Here are the release notes which accompanied the broadcast.
I've considered doing a podcast for a few years now and a colleague and I are considering launching something soon....

Pearson plc is suing Chegg for Copyright Infringement over test packs. (CourtListener)
As part of Pearson’s focus on pedagogy, Pearson and its authors devote significant creative effort to develop effective, imaginative, and engaging questions to include in the textbooks it publishes. Pearson’s end-of-chapter questions are strategically...