Re: The College Rankings and Methodology Thread
Posted: Wed May 06, 2020 6:02 pm
Post #11
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Logic in the Law and Copyright Infringement
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The Logical Song - Roger Hodgson, Supertramp - 1978
Today I will continue your education with an introduction to Logic in the Law.
”In the dialectic of the law, logic has an important part to play at a stage when a suggested rule has to be tested in order to discover whether or not its adoption will involve the contradiction of already established legal principles”.
I trust you have completed your requisite reading of these seminal works before honoring me with your presence today:
The Place of Logic in the Law - Morris R. Cohen, Harvard Law Review - April, 1916
Logic in the Law - Robert S. Summers, Cornell Law School - 1963
The Significance of Logic for Law - Professor Douglas Lind, The National Judicial College Press - 2007
And why, you might reasonably ask, would I introduce such an arcane topic on a College Rankings thread on the Off Topic board?
The answer is quite simple – to lay the foundation for the following discussion concerning Copyright Law – a topic which I touched upon in Post # 8 above (in the context of Forbes allegedly infringing on Niche’s copyrighted Net Price). ==> Tort ==> Intellectual Property Law ==> Copyright Law
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As well as educating you during the present coronavirus lockdown, a secondary purpose of this Post #11is to allay any concerns which may be fostered by admin in relation to my generous excerpting of Niches’ Best Colleges rankings in the preceding posts. Did such usage constitute a copyright infringement, and if so, what remedy might Niche.com seek in damages against Holy Land of Hoops? Please allow me to explore this issue in more detail, noting that a basic understanding of Logic in the Law is essential in the application of Copyright Law.
As it is not my intention to prepare you for your Bar Examination, we will begin here:
The Basics of Copyright Law - Mitchell Zimmerman, Fenwick & West LLP – March 17, 2015
The article above provides a succinct description of the basics that are important to know before proceeding to the following article, which addresses specific issues relative to posting on the Holy Land of Hoops website:
Copyright Law In 2020 Explained In One Page - Frank Moraes, WhoIsHostingThis.com – updated February 29, 2020
Now that you are equipped with a miniscule knowledge of Copyright Law, we will now turn our attention to its application:
Copyright Infringement: How Are Damage Amounts Determined? - Richard Stim, Attorney - Nolo - 2020
Best Practices for Obtaining Attorney Fees in Copyright Litigation - Michael D. Steger, American Bar Association - February 19, 2017
Why is all of this relevant, you might reasonably ask? Because each time that I have posted an image on the HLOH message board, I have likely infringed on the copyright of the photographer or artist who made that particular image available on the internet. Unless an image is clearly identified as “free for use”, by law, the image is deemed to be copyrighted. I have never requested permission from the copyright owner of an image I posted to use that image in a post, and therefore, I and/or the Holy Land of Hoops and admin could and would be found guilty of Copyright Infringement, should such a tort ever appear before a judge.
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But should admin or I be worried about that actually happening? Not at all, and for many reasons.
First of all, copy & paste these words into your favorite internet search engine: copyright infringement awards against college sports websites, and you will not get a single relevant ‘hit’. That in itself speaks volumes.
Second, while HLOH is likely not registered as a Nonprofit Organization, there is no registration fee nor annual dues charged to its registered members. Non-registered viewers of HLOH have free access to read all posts on the various HLOH message boards. The relatively small revenue that HLOH receives from advertisers would be deemed to roughly offset HLOH’s operating costs. Therefore, it is self-evident that the primary purpose of HLOH is NOT to make money for the owners and administrators of HLOH, but rather, to educate, inform, and entertain its members. In short, the HLOH message boards are forums whose primary purpose is to enable like-minded college basketball fans to exchange information, and their views and opinions. Because of the aforementioned, HLOH does not have “deep pockets” for a potential plaintiff to empty, and that is the primary reason why HLOH will never find itself in the position of a defendant in a civil suit.
Third – more “deep pockets” theory:
Buckeye Planet – Ohio State Sports Message Board - buckeyeplanet.com
Holy Land of Hoops – Big East Sports Message Board - holylandofhoops.com
Any potential plaintiff who is willing to spend tens of thousands of dollars on legal fees on a Copyright Infringement case is going to go after the big fish first.
Fourth – yet more “deep pockets” theory:
Forbes Inc. 2019 Revenue – Owler - 2020 ==> Forbes - Wikipedia
Niche.com Annual Revenue, Number of Employees, Growth and Funding - GrowJo.com - 2020
Niche Growth Accelerates, Subscription Revenue Grows 200% – Niche.com - February 7, 2019
Relative to Forbes Inc. and Niche.com, the Holy Land of Hoops would be deemed to be an impecunious defendant in the event that litigation was ever contemplated, and that would certainly end any legal proceedings prior to their initiation.
Further to Post # 8 above, both Forbes Inc. and Niche.com are both in business to make money for their shareholders, and Niche.com certainly does that. It is quite likely that Niche.com quickly noticed Forbes.com started using Niche’s Net Price in August 2017, apparently beyond the scope of their first contract with Niche. There is no doubt in my mind that Forbes quickly reached an out-of-court settlement with Niche for the use of Niche’s Net Price in 2017 and subsequent years, as Niche’s Net Price appeared again in the Forbes college rankings in 2018, and nothing has ever appeared in print about the incident.
Although I have posted lengthy excerpts from both the Niche and Princeton Review on this Page 1 of the thread, there is no risk whatsoever of either of them taking legal action against me personally nor the Holy Land of Hoops for at least six reasons: (1) The purpose and use of those lengthy excerpts were educational, and accordingly, qualify as ‘critiques by an independent reviewer’, (2) the excerpts collectively contain less than 1% of the content available on each of the two websites, (3) consequently, my excerpts could not be adjudicated to deprive Niche or The Princeton Review of revenue by reproducing limited information from their websites, (4) HLOH is a de facto nonprofit organization, (5) due to their inherent complexity, copyright infringement cases are very expensive to litigate, and (6) my independent reviews of both Niche and The Princeton Review are objective and quite complimentary, constituting favorable publicity for both websites – which is to their benefit moreso than my own. [N.B.: I do not own any shares of Niche or The Princeton Review.]
Therefore, it is quite likely that if an employee of Niche or The Princeton Review recommended to their boss that litigation against HLOH be initiated, he or she would be fitted with collar and chain, and be dragged down by the stone.
For those of you who have a greater interest in Copyright Infringement Law than this post provides, I recommend the following further reading:
Copyright Law in 2017: 12 Big Court Cases to Know About – Keith Kupferschmid, Copyright Clearance Center - January 10, 2018
Copyright Law in 2018: Top 10 Court Cases – Keith Kupferschmid, Copyright Clearance Center - January 18, 2019
Top Ten Copyright Stories of 2019…and What to Expect in 2020 – Keith Kupferschmid, Copyright Clearance Center – December 20, 2019
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THE COLLEGE RANKINGS AND METHODOLOGY THREAD - TABLE OF CONTENTS FOR PAGE 1
POST #1
… MUBoxer’s Unfortunate Accusation
… History of College Rankings Services
… 1. Introduction
… 6. Schools of Interest
… 12. Analysis of Data
… 17. Analysis: Which College Ratings Service Gives the ‘Best’ Rankings to Big East Schools?
… 18. The Backlash Against the U.S. News College Rankings
… 19. The Problems with the Forbes’ College Rankings
… 20. The Princeton Review Rankings
… 21. The Niche Rankings
… 22. Ranking the College Ranking Services
POST #2
… 23. BEST COLLEGES IN AMERICA 2020
… Table 6(a): Schools of Interest – Wikipedia - Sorted alphabetically
… Table 6(b): Schools of Interest - Sorted in order of Founding Year
… Table 6(c): Schools of Interest - Sorted in order of Enrolment
… Table 6(d): Schools of Interest - Sorted in order of Endowment
POST #3
… Table 7a. The U.S. News ‘Best Colleges 2019’ Rankings
… Table 7b. The U.S. News ‘Best Colleges 2020’ Rankings
… Table 8a. The Niche ‘Best Colleges in America 2019’ Rankings
… Table 8b. The Niche ‘Best Colleges in America 2020’ Rankings
… Table 9a. The Forbes ‘America’s Top Colleges 2018’ Rankings
… Table 9b. The Forbes ‘America’s Top Colleges 2019’ Rankings
POST #4
… 16. Analysis: The Effect of U.S. News’ Six Subdivisions on the Rankings of Big East Schools
POST #5
… 11. Princeton Review ‘Best 384 Colleges 2019 Edition’
POST #6
… Concluding Remarks
… The US News’ Monte Carlo Simulations Produce Ersatz Rankings
POST #7
… The Case Method and Niche’s Net Price
… The Harvard Business Review Case Method
… Lesson 1 • Data
… Table 23(a): NICHE’S BEST COLLEGES IN AMERICA 2020 – SORTED BY NET PRICE
… Table 23(b): NICHE’S BEST COLLEGES IN AMERICA 2020 – SELECTED GEOGRAPHIC GROUPINGS - SORTED BY NET PRICE
… Lesson 2 • Independent Verification of Initial Conclusions
… HLOH Business Review Case 1 • FORBES’ DILEMMA
POST #8
… The Forbes College Rankings: A Costly Exercise in Futility
POST #9
… HLOH Business Review Case No. 2
… Xudash’s Preposterous, Dishonest Post Opens a Can of Worms
… The Stanford University Common Data Set
… Xavier University Common Data Sets: 2003-2004 to 2019-2020
… Decline Of Catholic Universities in Philadelphia
… Small Institutions With Limited Endowments Are Facing Tough Times
… Table: Selected Schools - Sorted in Order of Endowment
… HLOH Business Review Case 2 • FATHER GRAHAM’S DILEMMA
… Table: Best Colleges in America 2020 – Page 16
… NICHE’S BEST COLLEGES IN AMERICA 2020 – SORTED BY NET PRICE
… Rethinking Liberal Arts
POST #10
… Coronavirus: The Death Knell for Xavier University?
… Fewer Students Are Going To College
… NICHE’S BEST COLLEGES IN AMERICA 2020 – SELECTED UNIVERSITIES IN OHIO College Enrolments[/b] and Coronavirus
… NICHE’S BEST COLLEGES IN AMERICA 2020 – SELECTED UNIVERSITIES IN OHIO - SORTED BY NET PRICE
… Common Data Sets: Enrolment
… Coronavirus: Effects on College Enrolment
… Fr. Graham’s Next Moves
… Graduate Programs and the Death Spiral
… 2026: The Year of Reckoning
… That Ol’ Can of Worms
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As the topics of College Rankings, College Enrolments and Coronavirus have now become inextricably intertwined, I will be making periodic posts on this thread in due course. In August, NICHE’S BEST COLLEGES IN AMERICA 2021 is scheduled to published, and there will undoubtedly be new developments emerging concerning the effects of Coronavirus on College Enrolments.
Class dismissed.
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Logic in the Law and Copyright Infringement
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The Logical Song - Roger Hodgson, Supertramp - 1978
Today I will continue your education with an introduction to Logic in the Law.
”In the dialectic of the law, logic has an important part to play at a stage when a suggested rule has to be tested in order to discover whether or not its adoption will involve the contradiction of already established legal principles”.
I trust you have completed your requisite reading of these seminal works before honoring me with your presence today:
The Place of Logic in the Law - Morris R. Cohen, Harvard Law Review - April, 1916
Logic in the Law - Robert S. Summers, Cornell Law School - 1963
The Significance of Logic for Law - Professor Douglas Lind, The National Judicial College Press - 2007
And why, you might reasonably ask, would I introduce such an arcane topic on a College Rankings thread on the Off Topic board?
The answer is quite simple – to lay the foundation for the following discussion concerning Copyright Law – a topic which I touched upon in Post # 8 above (in the context of Forbes allegedly infringing on Niche’s copyrighted Net Price). ==> Tort ==> Intellectual Property Law ==> Copyright Law
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In Post #8 Professor Fieldhouse wrote:
”A copyright infringement occurs when the works protected by copyright law is used without permission for a usage where such permission is required, thereby infringing certain exclusive rights granted to the copyright holder, such as the right to reproduce or display the protected work, or to make derivative works. The copyright holder is typically the work's creator or a publisher. Copyright holders routinely invoke legal measures to prevent and penalize copyright infringement. Copyright infringement disputes are usually resolved through direct negotiation, a notice and take down process, or litigation in civil court.
As well as educating you during the present coronavirus lockdown, a secondary purpose of this Post #11is to allay any concerns which may be fostered by admin in relation to my generous excerpting of Niches’ Best Colleges rankings in the preceding posts. Did such usage constitute a copyright infringement, and if so, what remedy might Niche.com seek in damages against Holy Land of Hoops? Please allow me to explore this issue in more detail, noting that a basic understanding of Logic in the Law is essential in the application of Copyright Law.
As it is not my intention to prepare you for your Bar Examination, we will begin here:
The Basics of Copyright Law - Mitchell Zimmerman, Fenwick & West LLP – March 17, 2015
Just Enough Copyright for People Who Are Not Attorneys or Intellectual Property Experts
Copyright Requirements: There are three basic requirements for copyright protection: (1) that which is to be protected must be a work of authorship; (2) it must be original; and (3) it must be fixed in a tangible medium of expression.
Defenses to Copyright Infringement: Fair Use: Even if a work is copied in whole or in part, a prima facie infringement will not mature into liability if an affirmative defense such as fair use applies. Section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976 mentions “criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, or research” as examples of fair use purposes.
The article above provides a succinct description of the basics that are important to know before proceeding to the following article, which addresses specific issues relative to posting on the Holy Land of Hoops website:
Copyright Law In 2020 Explained In One Page - Frank Moraes, WhoIsHostingThis.com – updated February 29, 2020
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What Is Fair Use?
Fair Use is the allowance made for the use of copyrighted material for the purpose of commentary, criticism, or parody. This section discusses the legal framework for Fair Use and the specifics of when Fair Use does and does not apply.
Copyright Is a Restriction on Free Speech
In the United States, we have a constitutionally guaranteed right to Freedom of Speech and also of the Press. At its most basic, this means that you can say, write, or publish anything you want to and the government is not supposed to be allowed to do anything to restrict that. However, we know that this is not completely true. Certain forms of speech are restricted because society has determined that the benefit of restriction far outweighs the infringement on freedom. For example, fraudulent advertising, libel, false accusations, and other types of lying are considered criminal behavior. The classic example of yelling “Fire!” in a crowded theater falls into this category. These are restrictions on free speech put in place to protect the public from certain types of harm. Copyright functions similarly, except it doesn’t protect from harm. Rather, it promotes a benefit — artists having control over their work and being able to profit from it.
The restriction occurs because if someone had absolute freedom to publish whatever they wanted, that would include the ability to publish something originally written by someone else. The benefit of artist control comes at the cost of a restriction on freedom. However, the restriction carries its own costs which may be harmful to society.
Fair Use Restores Lost Benefits
Fair Use is a solution to this problem. It exempts certain types of uses from the restrictions of copyright in order to recover the benefits of Free Speech.
Fair Use allows you to make copies of a copyrighted work for the purpose of comment, criticism, or parody. In some ways, it might have made sense if this had been called “Fair Mention,” because the circumstances where the exemption applies are really cases of mentioning the work, rather than using it.
Fair Use is a gray area. There are no bright line tests that definitively determine whether a usage is Fair Use or infringement. There is, however, a four-fold list of criteria that judges are directed to use when determining whether a specific instance is Fair Use or not.
The four criteria are:
• The purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes.
• The nature of the copyrighted work
• The amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole
• The effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work.
Point 1 is probably the most important — the context of the use itself. If you include a copyrighted poem into a collection of poems for sale, that is quite different than including the same poem in an essay about the poem.
Point 2, the nature of the work, is generally understood to deal with issues such as the cultural importance of the work, its newsworthiness, and whether it is a published or private work.
Point 3, the amount of the work used, has obvious reasonability. It should be noted, though, that use of a complete work (such as a reproduction of an entire painting) does not disqualify a determination of Fair Use.
Point 4, the market effect, is second in importance only to Point 1. A perfect copy of a work thinly disguised as a commentary may divert sales away from the original.
On the other hand, an excerpt included in a positive review may increase the work’s value. This criterion has everything to do with the extent to which the usage can serve as a substitute for the original work. Negative criticism that adversely affects market value can still be Fair Use.
Fair Use Is Gray
It cannot be stressed enough: fair use is a gray area. There are some uses that are clearly Fair, and some that are clearly infringement, but ultimately Fair Use is determined by a judge if and only if a case is brought to trial, which rarely happens.
Also see: • More on Fair Use and Fair Dealing • Practical Understanding of Fair Use • Examples of Legitimate Fair Use
Linking to a News Story: If you link to a news story or a blog post from your own site, it is customary to include a quote or two from the source material. In this case, the context of your link to the original material probably constitutes commentary, and the quotes are covered under Fair Use.
Things That Are Definitely Not Fair Use
Using an Image From Google to Illustrate a Blog Post:
It is very popular today to illustrate blog posts and other online stories with images that capture the themes of the story, even though they aren’t always directly related. Using a quick Google Image Search and pulling any image you find on to your blog is likely going to infringe on copyright, unless the image itself has an Open License. It does not count as Fair Use, because you are using the image to illustrate your post, not commenting on the image itself.
Quoting All or Most of a News Story:
Quoting a few lines of a news story in order to provide some context to a link is just fine, but what about copying the whole thing? That’s infringement.
So where’s the line between infringement and Fair Use in a case like this? Can you post half the story? Ten percent of it? There isn’t an obvious line. It isn’t as if there’s a specific word limit or article percentage that makes the difference. The best question to ask yourself in a case like this is whether your post will realistically function to send traffic to the original post, or if it is substantial enough to act as a replacement for it. If your post effectively replaces the original, then it isn’t Fair Use — it’s infringement.
Now that you are equipped with a miniscule knowledge of Copyright Law, we will now turn our attention to its application:
Copyright Infringement: How Are Damage Amounts Determined? - Richard Stim, Attorney - Nolo - 2020
Courts consider actual and statutory damages when making an award in a case that proved copyright infringement.
(1) Awards of Actual Damages in a Copyright Infringement Case
(2) Awards of Infringer's Profits
(3) Awards of Statutory Damages in a Copyright Infringement Case
A plaintiff in an infringement action may opt for either actual damages (and the infringer’s profits, if appropriate) or statutory damages, but not both. It is often said that copyright plaintiffs must "elect their remedy." Statutory damages are explained in 17 U.S.C. § 504(c). For infringements that cannot clearly be proven as either innocent or willful, statutory damages may be from $750 to $30,000 per infringement. The exact amount depends on the seriousness of the infringing act and the financial worth of the infringer.
On the other hand, an innocent infringer may have to pay as little as $200, while an intentional infringer may have to pay as much as $150,000 for a single infringement of one work. In short, statutory damages provide a clearly defined remedy for victims of infringement without the murkiness and uncertainty of the first two categories of damages.
Best Practices for Obtaining Attorney Fees in Copyright Litigation - Michael D. Steger, American Bar Association - February 19, 2017
After last year's Supreme Court decision in Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., courts should now give substantial weight to the objective reasonableness of the losing party's position in analyzing fee requests. 136 S. Ct. at 1983. The Kirtsaeng court tempered this admonition by cautioning that "objective reasonableness can be only an important factor in assessing fee applications - not the controlling one." Id. at 1988. "That means in any given case a court may award fees even though the losing party offered reasonable arguments (or, conversely, deny fees even though the losing party made unreasonable ones)." Id. "Although objective reasonableness carries significant weight, courts must view all the circumstances of a case on their own terms, in light of the Copyright Act's essential goals." Id. at 1989.
Why is all of this relevant, you might reasonably ask? Because each time that I have posted an image on the HLOH message board, I have likely infringed on the copyright of the photographer or artist who made that particular image available on the internet. Unless an image is clearly identified as “free for use”, by law, the image is deemed to be copyrighted. I have never requested permission from the copyright owner of an image I posted to use that image in a post, and therefore, I and/or the Holy Land of Hoops and admin could and would be found guilty of Copyright Infringement, should such a tort ever appear before a judge.
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But should admin or I be worried about that actually happening? Not at all, and for many reasons.
First of all, copy & paste these words into your favorite internet search engine: copyright infringement awards against college sports websites, and you will not get a single relevant ‘hit’. That in itself speaks volumes.
Second, while HLOH is likely not registered as a Nonprofit Organization, there is no registration fee nor annual dues charged to its registered members. Non-registered viewers of HLOH have free access to read all posts on the various HLOH message boards. The relatively small revenue that HLOH receives from advertisers would be deemed to roughly offset HLOH’s operating costs. Therefore, it is self-evident that the primary purpose of HLOH is NOT to make money for the owners and administrators of HLOH, but rather, to educate, inform, and entertain its members. In short, the HLOH message boards are forums whose primary purpose is to enable like-minded college basketball fans to exchange information, and their views and opinions. Because of the aforementioned, HLOH does not have “deep pockets” for a potential plaintiff to empty, and that is the primary reason why HLOH will never find itself in the position of a defendant in a civil suit.
Third – more “deep pockets” theory:
Buckeye Planet – Ohio State Sports Message Board - buckeyeplanet.com
Forum Statistics:
Discussions (Topics): 86,866
Messages (Posts): 3,212,420
Members: 19,545
Holy Land of Hoops – Big East Sports Message Board - holylandofhoops.com
Forum Statistics:
Discussions (Topics): 4,956
Messages (Posts): 121,306
Members: 1165
Any potential plaintiff who is willing to spend tens of thousands of dollars on legal fees on a Copyright Infringement case is going to go after the big fish first.
Fourth – yet more “deep pockets” theory:
Forbes Inc. 2019 Revenue – Owler - 2020 ==> Forbes - Wikipedia
Forbes estimated 2019 revenue: $400 Million
Niche.com Annual Revenue, Number of Employees, Growth and Funding - GrowJo.com - 2020
Estimated Revenue & Financials
Niche.com's estimated annual revenue is currently $15.2 Million per year.
Niche.com has 112 Employees. Niche.com grew their employee count by 40% last year.
Niche Growth Accelerates, Subscription Revenue Grows 200% – Niche.com - February 7, 2019
Every year, over 60 million people use Niche to choose the schools, jobs, and neighborhoods that are right for them. We analyze dozens of data sets and hundreds of millions of ratings and reviews to produce comprehensive rankings, report cards, and profiles for every K-12 school, college, neighborhood, and major employer in America.
Relative to Forbes Inc. and Niche.com, the Holy Land of Hoops would be deemed to be an impecunious defendant in the event that litigation was ever contemplated, and that would certainly end any legal proceedings prior to their initiation.
Further to Post # 8 above, both Forbes Inc. and Niche.com are both in business to make money for their shareholders, and Niche.com certainly does that. It is quite likely that Niche.com quickly noticed Forbes.com started using Niche’s Net Price in August 2017, apparently beyond the scope of their first contract with Niche. There is no doubt in my mind that Forbes quickly reached an out-of-court settlement with Niche for the use of Niche’s Net Price in 2017 and subsequent years, as Niche’s Net Price appeared again in the Forbes college rankings in 2018, and nothing has ever appeared in print about the incident.
Although I have posted lengthy excerpts from both the Niche and Princeton Review on this Page 1 of the thread, there is no risk whatsoever of either of them taking legal action against me personally nor the Holy Land of Hoops for at least six reasons: (1) The purpose and use of those lengthy excerpts were educational, and accordingly, qualify as ‘critiques by an independent reviewer’, (2) the excerpts collectively contain less than 1% of the content available on each of the two websites, (3) consequently, my excerpts could not be adjudicated to deprive Niche or The Princeton Review of revenue by reproducing limited information from their websites, (4) HLOH is a de facto nonprofit organization, (5) due to their inherent complexity, copyright infringement cases are very expensive to litigate, and (6) my independent reviews of both Niche and The Princeton Review are objective and quite complimentary, constituting favorable publicity for both websites – which is to their benefit moreso than my own. [N.B.: I do not own any shares of Niche or The Princeton Review.]
Therefore, it is quite likely that if an employee of Niche or The Princeton Review recommended to their boss that litigation against HLOH be initiated, he or she would be fitted with collar and chain, and be dragged down by the stone.
For those of you who have a greater interest in Copyright Infringement Law than this post provides, I recommend the following further reading:
Copyright Law in 2017: 12 Big Court Cases to Know About – Keith Kupferschmid, Copyright Clearance Center - January 10, 2018
Copyright Law in 2018: Top 10 Court Cases – Keith Kupferschmid, Copyright Clearance Center - January 18, 2019
Top Ten Copyright Stories of 2019…and What to Expect in 2020 – Keith Kupferschmid, Copyright Clearance Center – December 20, 2019
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THE COLLEGE RANKINGS AND METHODOLOGY THREAD - TABLE OF CONTENTS FOR PAGE 1
POST #1
… MUBoxer’s Unfortunate Accusation
… History of College Rankings Services
… 1. Introduction
… 6. Schools of Interest
… 12. Analysis of Data
… 17. Analysis: Which College Ratings Service Gives the ‘Best’ Rankings to Big East Schools?
… 18. The Backlash Against the U.S. News College Rankings
… 19. The Problems with the Forbes’ College Rankings
… 20. The Princeton Review Rankings
… 21. The Niche Rankings
… 22. Ranking the College Ranking Services
POST #2
… 23. BEST COLLEGES IN AMERICA 2020
… Table 6(a): Schools of Interest – Wikipedia - Sorted alphabetically
… Table 6(b): Schools of Interest - Sorted in order of Founding Year
… Table 6(c): Schools of Interest - Sorted in order of Enrolment
… Table 6(d): Schools of Interest - Sorted in order of Endowment
POST #3
… Table 7a. The U.S. News ‘Best Colleges 2019’ Rankings
… Table 7b. The U.S. News ‘Best Colleges 2020’ Rankings
… Table 8a. The Niche ‘Best Colleges in America 2019’ Rankings
… Table 8b. The Niche ‘Best Colleges in America 2020’ Rankings
… Table 9a. The Forbes ‘America’s Top Colleges 2018’ Rankings
… Table 9b. The Forbes ‘America’s Top Colleges 2019’ Rankings
POST #4
… 16. Analysis: The Effect of U.S. News’ Six Subdivisions on the Rankings of Big East Schools
POST #5
… 11. Princeton Review ‘Best 384 Colleges 2019 Edition’
POST #6
… Concluding Remarks
… The US News’ Monte Carlo Simulations Produce Ersatz Rankings
POST #7
… The Case Method and Niche’s Net Price
… The Harvard Business Review Case Method
… Lesson 1 • Data
… Table 23(a): NICHE’S BEST COLLEGES IN AMERICA 2020 – SORTED BY NET PRICE
… Table 23(b): NICHE’S BEST COLLEGES IN AMERICA 2020 – SELECTED GEOGRAPHIC GROUPINGS - SORTED BY NET PRICE
… Lesson 2 • Independent Verification of Initial Conclusions
… HLOH Business Review Case 1 • FORBES’ DILEMMA
POST #8
… The Forbes College Rankings: A Costly Exercise in Futility
POST #9
… HLOH Business Review Case No. 2
… Xudash’s Preposterous, Dishonest Post Opens a Can of Worms
… The Stanford University Common Data Set
… Xavier University Common Data Sets: 2003-2004 to 2019-2020
… Decline Of Catholic Universities in Philadelphia
… Small Institutions With Limited Endowments Are Facing Tough Times
… Table: Selected Schools - Sorted in Order of Endowment
… HLOH Business Review Case 2 • FATHER GRAHAM’S DILEMMA
… Table: Best Colleges in America 2020 – Page 16
… NICHE’S BEST COLLEGES IN AMERICA 2020 – SORTED BY NET PRICE
… Rethinking Liberal Arts
POST #10
… Coronavirus: The Death Knell for Xavier University?
… Fewer Students Are Going To College
… NICHE’S BEST COLLEGES IN AMERICA 2020 – SELECTED UNIVERSITIES IN OHIO College Enrolments[/b] and Coronavirus
… NICHE’S BEST COLLEGES IN AMERICA 2020 – SELECTED UNIVERSITIES IN OHIO - SORTED BY NET PRICE
… Common Data Sets: Enrolment
… Coronavirus: Effects on College Enrolment
… Fr. Graham’s Next Moves
… Graduate Programs and the Death Spiral
… 2026: The Year of Reckoning
… That Ol’ Can of Worms
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As the topics of College Rankings, College Enrolments and Coronavirus have now become inextricably intertwined, I will be making periodic posts on this thread in due course. In August, NICHE’S BEST COLLEGES IN AMERICA 2021 is scheduled to published, and there will undoubtedly be new developments emerging concerning the effects of Coronavirus on College Enrolments.
Class dismissed.