Legal Opinion
Zyla v. Wadsworth, Division of the Thomson Corp.
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided February 25, 2004No. 03-1801PublishedCited by 45 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LYNCH, Circuit Judge.
This civil case arose out of a dispute over authorship of the fourth edition of a college textbook, Personal Nutrition, published in August 2000.
Gail Zyla was a visiting lecturer in nutrition at Tufts University from 1996 until 2000, when she became an independent writer. Earlier in the 1990s, she had worked with Professor Marie Boyle Stru-ble, a professor and director of the graduate program in nutrition at The College of St. Elizabeth, on the second and third editions of the textbook. Both were listed as co-authors; Struble had co-authored the first edition with someone…
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