October 12, 2007

Publishers and Treasury Office Settle Suit Over Limits on Authors in Embargoed Nations

By PETER MONAGHAN

The U.S. Treasury Department has issued new regulations clarifying a long-running dispute over how American publishers of academic books and journals may deal with works submitted by scholars in countries under U.S. trade embargoes. The department also agreed to settle a lawsuit brought by several groups representing publishers and authors.

The department's Office of Foreign Assets Control published the new regulations in the Federal Register on August 30. Last week it agreed to settle

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