| Iran Expert Yarshater Created Iranica
Columbia U Excludes Public Now Catalogue
Disputes
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Jan 28 – Historian Ehsan
Yarshater compiled an
Encyclopedia Iranica while
working at Columbia
University. He founded the
Persian Heritage Foundation to
continue the work.
Now Columbia is
said to claim title to his
work.
On July 1, U.S.
District Court for the
Southern District of New York
Magistrate Judge Kevin N. Fox.
held a proceeding. Inner City
Press covered it.
Judge Fox
has ordered an inventory of
the disputed materials.
Columbia is dispute even that,
but lost a June 11 order by
Judge Fox, who overruled
Columbia's objections. Inner
City Press reported on July 1,
the fight continues. And it
has.
On July 31 the
plaintiffs sought a Temporary
Restraining Order from
District Judge Analisa Torres.
They said Columbia is
destroying the project, now
telling authors that they are
given up all right to what
they right, and trying to
exclude the public from the
encyclopedia.
Columbia's
lawyer replied that the
University is much more than a
landlord. Judge Torres on the
evening of July 31 granted a
TRO.
On August 26,
after the evidentiary hearing,
she extended it to October 8.
On theat date, she denied a
preliminary injunction. But
the case has proceeded.
On January 28
Magistrate Judge Fox held a
proceeding, and Inner City
Press covered it. At issue
were the cataloguing not only
of written documents -
seemingly agreed to - but of
computer records, not agreed
to. The fight continues. Watch
this site.
The case is The
Trustees Of Columbia
University in the City of New
York v. Encyclopaedia Iranica
Foundation, 19-cv-7465 (Torres
/ Fox).
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