There is no way this is legal: https://www.houstonchronicle.com/business/article/Texas-court-says-photographer-has-no-recourse-13973674.php … U.Houston is claiming they have sovereign immunity and can’t be sued for copyright infringement. But..that only applies to the Texas Government, not a university. Universities can’t pass or enforce laws, so not sovereign.
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I also have no idea how a university that teaches photography, art, writing, and employs professors can then allow the business school to violate one of the most essential tools of intellectual property that makes a university work. Why aren’t the other professors mad as fuck?
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If I was an art or photography professor at the University of Houston I’d be organizing brutally humiliating protest projects of the business school and find creative ways to steal all the business professor’s work. I mean, I’m fucking sovereign now so let the games begin.
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I guess I didn’t realize at you can’t sue a state? Is that a thing?
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Depends on the state and for what, but usual “the state” means the *actual* governing organization, not some random ass state university with zero power. If that’s true then any state run utilities couldn’t be sued for negligence that causes death, and lots of weird situations.
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