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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."

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  1. Hurrah! by Canazza · · Score: 4, Informative

    And rightly so. I doubt they actually made any money from the plug in, so $10m would have utterly crippled both the university and the students therein.

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    1. Re:Hurrah! by FlyingBishop · · Score: 5, Informative

      Also the AC above was right:

      http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/college/items/3749

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

      GMU's endowment is only $54,955,028. Wikipedia had an extra 1 on the front for some reason (I fixed it.)

      At the same time, I got the corrected figure from the reference cited on Wikipedia, so it doesn't really discredit wikipedia, so much as prove you need to follow your sources, whatever you're reading.

      http://eagle.gmu.edu/gazette/articles/9750
      This article also puts the endowment as just reaching 50 million a few years ago.