INSIDE HIGHER ED — An assistant professor of business at Chapman University is suing students for posting parts of his midterm and final course exams on the website Course Hero. But he doesn’t know who those students are yet. That’s what the lawsuit is for: by suing John Does for copyright infringement, the professor, David Berkovitz, seeks to legally compel Course Hero—which is not a defendant in the case—to produce the students’ identities. “We had no choice,” said Marc Hankin, Berkovitz’s lawyer. “The only way to get a subpoena is to have a case pending.” Prior to suing, Berkovitz contacted Chapman about his exam questions being on Course Hero and reached out to the website itself, Hankin said. But neither party could tell him who uploaded the exams. While Chapman “has a very strong honor code and they don’t support cheating, obviously, they don’t know who it is and there was nothing they could do about it,” Hankin continued. Course Hero, meanwhile, allegedly told Berkovitz, “We’ll give you the information if you serve us with a subpoena.”