Academic Publishing Faces Antitrust Scrutiny in Landmark U.S. Class Action Lawsuit | Kubiack Law

On September 12, 2024, Dr. Lucina Uddin, a neuroscience professor at UCLA, filed a landmark class action lawsuit against the six largest for-profit academic publishers and their trade association. The complaint, Uddin v. Elsevier et al., filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, asserts that the publishers conspired to suppress compensation and restrict competition in academic publishing, which is a potential violation of the U.S. Sherman Act. If successful, this lawsuit could dramatically reshape how academic research is published, reviewed, and disseminated across the globe.

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