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Re:Court: Photographer has no recourse against university co... by icebraining on Friday June 14, 2019 @03:17AM (#20181085)
> The reason is that state institutions have sovereign immunity from copyright infringement lawsuits.

Federal courts disagree; in Cambridge University Press v. Patton, they did a work-by-work fair use test, and Georgia State University was found infringing on four counts.

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Re:Court: Photographer has no recourse against university co... by icebraining on Friday June 14, 2019 @05:45AM (#20181668)
Correction: it seems they simply failed to raise that argument, so the court didn't take sovereign immunity into account.
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