Chicago State University Lawyers Attack Faculty Bloggers

An anonymous reader writes "A blog run by faculty members at Chicago State University (CSU) has been threatened by university lawyers with a cease and desist notice. Since 2009 the blog has posted information critical of CSU's policies and hiring practices. The notice threatened legal action if the site is not disabled by Friday due to violations of 'trade names and marks' without permission and violations of University policies. The blog admin changed the name of the blog in the meanwhile to Crony State University and replaced an image on the page pending legal counsel. Also the blog is currently still active."

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Guess nobody bothered to rtfs where it states "Unvervisity Policies". Since the blog is by University Facualty Members, they can and do have the right to tell em to shut it down on the Campus Servers. Sorry folks but the idiots don't own the server - it's their Employers so no, their screwed/blued and tattooed while having to bend over backwards.

The solution would be to host it with a commercial host instead of using the univervisities systems. It also drops it straight into the "Fair Use" rules where they could tell the Lawyers to "foad - Fuck Off and Die" and should the university retaliate, they then have federal "Hostile Work Environment" complaints and such that would finally forced a proper investigation into the admins practices. Of course, with idiots like this supposedly teaching our people how to think, I wouldn't trust them to teach my dog how to obey a leash as all it took was a bit of thought on my part to come of with a viable solution that gives them far more ammunition against the school should they continue.