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College Board Settles With Test-Prep Company Accused of Copyright Infringement
by Elizabeth F. Farrell
A Texas-based test-preparatory company has agreed to pay $1-million in a settlement with the College Board two months after the organization filed a copyright-infringement lawsuit against the company, Karen Dillard’s College Prep LP.
In February the College Board said the company, known as KDCP, had illegally obtained copies of SAT forms before they were available to the public, and had used questions from those forms in practice materials distributed to its test-prep clients. In response, KDCP countersued the College Board, accusing it of improperly obtaining proprietary information about the company from a former employee.
Under the terms of the settlement, announced today, both sides have dropped their lawsuits, and the College Board will not cancel the SAT scores of students who used KDCP’s test-prep materials and classes. Also, $400,000 of the $1-million settlement will be paid by KDCP by offering free SAT test-prep services to low-income high-school students.
Karen Dillard, managing partner of KDCP, said in a news release that her company now recognized that it “should have been more careful in handling College Board materials, and going forward KDCP is committed to respecting the College Board’s intellectual-property rights.”
Both the company and the College Board have agreed to limit their comments on the matter to the news release. —Elizabeth F. Farrell
— Elizabeth F. Farrell
Chronicle of Higher Education
2008-04-29
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