Four men who pleaded guilty to stealing rare sketches and books from the Transylvania University library can sell their story and keep the proceeds, a federal judge decided last week.
In court documents, U.S. District Judge Jennifer Coffman said she could not enter an order that would limit the defendants’ ability to profit from the sale of their stories, citing a 1991 U.S. Supreme Court decision that ruled against the government’s attempts to regulate a defendant’s ability to profit.
Ugh
This is disgraceful. I certainly hope that libraries, and particularly university libraries, won’t buy the book (if it’s published).
Re:Ugh
I know one public library that certainly will not!