Tuesday, June 13, 2017

Sussex Tech Stole Over $500,000 in Books?

The recent scandal at Sussex Tech may only be the tip of the iceberg. A tipster alerted us to a 2015 lawsuit filed by a former employee.

In court documents, the employee alleged that Sussex Tech operated a wholesale operation of copyright infringement totaling in excess of $500,000 of stolen materials.

Plaintiff also alleges that for many years, he was aware that Defendant Corder had been copying and/or approving the copying of textbooks, but that Defendant Corder had told him that she had permission to do so.  On May 26, 2015, shortly after becoming aware that Defendant Corder did not, in fact, have permission to copy textbooks, Plaintiff presented to Defendant Corder a list of copyright infringements "totaling almost half a million dollars that Sussex Technical Adult Division had been and was engaging in[.]" Plaintiff proceeded to tell Defendant Corder that the illegal copyright infringement she had sanctioned "was wrong, illegal, had to stop, but also had to be rectified so as to make Sussex Technical School District in compliance with the law."
Associated Court Filing: Here

In our research, we discovered that this lawsuit was settled in January 2017:

If there are any more tips concerning this controversy, please comment below or send us an email. We were unable to obtain all of the court documents because they are behind paywall services related to the federal court system.

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