Columbia, Late Professor’s Iran Foundation Settle Ownership Suit

Columbia University and a late professor’s foundation settled a lawsuit over ownership of the professor’s scholarship on Iran, a New York federal court said Thursday.

Details of the settlement aren’t offered by the court’s order, which dismisses the consolidated lawsuit over who owns the trademark rights for Encyclopaedia Iranica, a comprehensive research tool dedicated to the study of Iranian civilization.

• Columbia and the Encyclopaedia Iranica Foundation sued each other in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York in 2019 after Iranica’s creator, Persian scholar Ehsan Yarshater, died the previous year
• The settlement allows the parties to ...