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Zotero Lawsuit Dismissed

Posted by kdawson on from the ending-of-note dept.

peretzpup writes "The Chronicle of Higher Education reports that Thomson Reuters's lawsuit against George Mason University has been dismissed. Last fall the news organization had sued GMU's Center for History and New Media over supposed violations of the EndNote licensing agreement by the Zotero project, hosted at the university. Zotero, a Firefox plug-in designed to help scholars store and organize their online research, has seen millions of downloads. Zotero project co-director Sean Takats's announcement is pretty heartwarming. No comment as yet from Thomson Reuters."

6 of 60 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Hurrah! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    they're a large, public university with a 9 figure endowment.

    Citation needed.

  2. Re:Hurrah! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Mason_University

  3. Re:Hurrah! by JoeRandomHacker · · Score: 5, Funny

    There is something ironic about citing Wikipedia in response to a [citation needed].

  4. Re:TR shot themselfs in the foot with this lawsuit by jank1887 · · Score: 3, Funny

    but at least they won't have any corrupt superblocks.

  5. Re:Hurrah! by z4ckpete · · Score: 1, Funny

    Endowment: $54,080,984

    Pretty sure that's 8 figures...

  6. Re:Victory by Just+Some+Guy · · Score: 2, Funny

    Their testing division is a borderline racket for the amount they charge for testing on testing software that still runs on Windows 2000 Professional and crashes mid way through the MC$E tests.

    Now that's funny.

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    Dewey, what part of this looks like authorities should be involved?