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Publisher Sues University Librarian Over His Personal Blog Posts
McGruber writes "The Chronicle of Higher Education has the news that Herbert Richardson, founder of Edwin Mellen Press is suing McMaster University and University Librarian Dale Askey for $3 Million over Mr. Askey's posts on a personal blog. In 2010 Mr. Askey wrote a blog post about Edwin Mellen Press on his personal Web site, Bibliobrary. Mr. Askey referred to the publisher as 'dubious' and said its books were often works of 'second-class scholarship.' For a few months afterward, several people chimed in in the blog's comments section, some agreeing with Mr. Askey, others arguing in support of the publisher. In a February 11 statement, the McMaster University Faculty Association (MUFA) stated that The Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT) 'and the MUFA Executive agree that this case represents a serious threat to the freedom of academic librarians (pdf) to voice their professional judgement and to academic freedom more generally.'"
... that if also this librarian had been an Orangutan Mr Richardson would have thought twice about suing.
Barbra Streisand published her memoir there, Don't Take Pictures Of My House.
I taped a note on my locker saying "Jenny Arbuckle is a fatty".
She didn't sue, but she said 'no' when I asked her to be my prom date.
Set your phasers on "funky"!
Mellen Press is trying to make McMaster its McBitch.
Thank you, Edward Snowden.
"Arguments from authority are worthless." —Carl Sagan
The prior poster was referring to the fictional Librarian of the Unseen University in Ankh Mor-pork on the Discworld in novels written by Terry Pratchett. People don't criticize him as he tends to rip off their arms and or head.
Sounds like Wookie problem resolution practices.
"It's the height of ridiculousness to say for those 9 lines you get hundreds of millions."