Judge: Professor Violated Dow Jones Copyrights With Article Distribution Emails

(September 19, 2024, 12:19 PM EDT) -- AUSTIN, Texas — In a mixed result for both parties on competing motions for summary judgment, a federal judge in Texas held that a professor infringed on copyrights held by Dow Jones & Co. Inc. by emailing his students, former students and others PDFs of stories from Dow Jones publications and breached the contract formed by his subscription to the publications but that Dow Jones failed to show that the professor violated the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA)....