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Is there some version of the article that names the student that 4 or 5 people have read? Or are people just seeing the name of the Licensing Officer at CERN and confusing it with the student's name?

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Oh they are not telling us her name. They must be telling the company if they are to extract the payment from her though.

Not really, the university may have paid it and then get the money from the student.

Well then the student would do well to not pay and to force the University to take them to court over the speculative invoice. Good luck getting undergraduate students to the University that will give itself the reputation as the enforcement arm of a copyright claim. (NB that in the EU no matter what the University blusters they cannot prevent graduation over unpaid charges.)

I am not a lawyer.

RTFA. Ph.D "student". There is no 'graduation' as such. The university can refuse to accept the submission.

Yes there is a graduation as such for Ph.D. students -- it's not such a big deal seeing as it happens post viva/defence and many students don't turn up in person however it is still required to get the piece of paper that says Doctor of Philosophy on it.

Submission tends to be covered by laws as well.

> The university can refuse to accept the submission.

They could try. I've seen HUGE fusses being thrown over way more reasonable refusals than this.

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