CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS v. ALBERT

No. 16-15726.

906 F.3d 1290 (2018)

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, Oxford University Press, Inc., Sage Publications, Inc., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. J. L. ALBERT, in his official capacity as Georgia State University Associate Provost for Information Systems and Technology, Kenneth R. Bernard, Jr., in his official capacity as member of the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

October 19, 2018.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward B. Krugman , John H. Rains, IV , Bondurant Mixson & Elmore, Atlanta, GA, Robert Bruce Rich , Jonathan Bloom , Todd D. Larson , Randi Wolkenbreit Singer , Weil Gotshal & Manges, LLP, NEW YORK, NY, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

Anthony B. Askew , Mary Katherine Bates , John W. Harbin , Lisa Pavento , Stephen M. Schaetzel , Meunier Carlin & Curfman, LLC, Natasha H. Moffitt , King & Spalding, LLP, Katrina M. Quicker , Baker & Hostetler, LLP, ATLANTA, GA, for Defendants-Appellees.

Nancy Evelyn Wolff , Mary Eleanor Rasenberger , Scott Jonathan Sholder , Cowan DeBaets Abrahams & Sheppard, NEW YORK, NY, Amicus Curiae for THE AUTHORS GUILD.

Ronald Gene Dove , Jr., Robert Newton Hunziker, Jr. , Covington & Burling, LLP, WASHINGTON, DC, Amicus Curiae for THE COPYRIGHT ALLIANCE.

Mtichell Stoltz , Electronic Frontier Foundation, SAN FRANCISCO, CA, Amicus Curiae for AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION, ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES, ASSOCIATION OF RESEARCH LIBRARIES.

Jennifer M. Urban , Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic, UC Berkeley School of Law, BERKELEY, CA, Amicus Curiae for AUTHORS ALLIANCE.

Before WILLIAM PRYOR, MARTIN, and ROSENBAUM, Circuit Judges.


This appeal requires us to decide whether the district court misinterpreted our mandate in an earlier appeal and misapplied the defense of fair use, 17 U.S.C. § 107, in a dispute between three academic publishers and Georgia State University about the University's practice of distributing to students digital excerpts...

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