It’s not an accident, I think, that Thomson/Reuters has carefully pleaded only state law claims based on the language of the site license. That’s shameful.īut I’m not ready to agree that it’s comic or inept. Thomson/Reuters would like to say, apparently, that if you put that knowledge into EndNote, then Thomson/Reuters is your gatekeeper. The complaint challenges the heart of the scholarly research enterprise, the premise that knowledge should be available to all and shareable by all. Zotero users could easy share their source data with other Zotero users. ens style files using Zotero.” I don’t use the software, so I’m speculating a little bit: It looks like the timing of the complaint, and this extraordinary demand to kill Zotero functionality for Zotero users, is related to the imminent release of a Zotero update that would create a shared Zotero commons.

csl style files that were converted from the EndNote Software’s proprietary. Not only does the complaint seek an injunction against further distribution of Zotero, but it also asks for an injunction that “terminate the ability of each Zotero user to use and/or further distribute any. Grimmelmann’s parsing of the complaint leads him to the conclusion that it’s the work of “a comically inept overbearing bully.” Bullying and overbearing it may be.

(Oops - I almost typed “infringing” Zotero product!) This allegedly amounts to a breach of the site license by GMU, which is a breach of contract.Â Thomson/Reuters seeks an injunction, not the standard contract remedy, against further distribution by GMU of the illegally-developed Zotero product. Cohen also publishes the great Digital Humanities blog.) The complaint alleges that GMU’s EndNote site license prohibits reverse engineering the software, and that Zotero was developed in part by reverse engineering EndNote to determine how Zotero could convert EndNote’s output styles into Zotero’s output styles.

Dan Cohen, leader of the project to develop Zotero, an open source Firefox plugin that competes against EndNote. Via Michael Froomkin and James Grimmelmann, I learn of the lawsuit filed by Thomson/Reuters, proprietors of the closed-source EndNote software used by scholars to manage sources, against George Mason University, home of Prof.

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