Legal Opinion
Vanderbilt Univ. v. Scholastic, Inc.
District Court, M.D. Tennessee
Decided May 28, 2019No. 3:18-cv-00046PublishedCited by 19 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WAVERLY D. CRENSHAW, JR., CHIEF UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE
*744"Money tends to make people suspicious, if there's any money floating around."1 This case arises from just such a suspicion. By means of a License Agreement executed in 1997 ("License"), Vanderbilt University ("Vanderbilt") and Defendant Scholastic, Inc. ("Scholastic") joined forces to develop, market, and distribute an educational literacy program called Read 180 based on the cutting-edge work of Vanderbilt Professor Ted S. Hasselbring. Pursuant to the License, Scholastic used certain copyrightable software and related instructional…
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