Monday, July 7, 2008
Meyer vs. SLU
I read this article today in the Post that stated that Saint Louis University is barrring one of its decade long student advisors from entering the schoool newspaper office to assist with the paper. The banning of the Tenured professor came after an altercation with the school, in which case SLU sued Avis Meyer for alleging copyright and trademark infrigement after he formed an nonprofit organization for the university's students using the same name as the University newspaper, The University News. Meyer claimed that he only formed the nonprofit organization for the student's because the school paper was going to moved off of campus. Even after the professor is banned and may be in trouble for trespassing if he comes back to the newspaper office. You must still consider the issue of the lawsuit for copyright infrigement. The lawsuit is valid especially because the advisor created a duplicate not a parody of the campus paper.
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