Global publishers decide to end tussle with DU on photocopied course packs

OUP, Cambridge University Press, Taylor & Francis withdrew from an ongoing lawsuit against DU

In an interesting turnaround of events, international publishers Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press and Taylor & Francis issued a joint press statement on Thursday, stating their decision to withdraw from an ongoing lawsuit against the Delhi University and the Rameshwari Photocopy Shop for endorsing and selling photocopied course packs of their textbooks.

The case, which has gained national attention as a test case for copyright violations in the education sector made several rounds of the Delhi High Court, first before a single judge, who ruled in favour of the university and its students and held that the photocopying of textbooks