Separate suit against pirate site Sci-Hub by the American Chemical Society appears likely to succeed (5 October 2018) Several scientific publishers, including the American Chemical Society, are expanding their legal actions against sites that facilitate sharing of scientific articles in violation of copyright law. The publishers are preparing to issue what could be millions of…
Alexandra Elbakyan is plundering the academic publishing establishment (8 February 2018) In cramped quarters at Russia’s Higher School of Economics, shared by four students and a cat, sat a server with 13 hard drives. The server hosted Sci-Hub, a website with over 64 million academic papers available for free to anybody in the world. It…
(23 November 2017) Several domains of the controversial academic paper filesharing site Sci-Hub have been made inactive following a court order earlier this month. According to Whois records, sci-hub.io, sci-hub.ac and sci-hub.cc have their domain set to “serverHold”, an ICANN code meaning the “domain is not activated in the DNS”. Records for sci-hub.io and sci-hub.ac…
( 8 January 2015) The ARL reports that for the past several years, HathiTrust and five of its member universities have been engaged in litigation after being sued by the Authors Guild. On 6 January 2015, the parties entered a settlement on the sole issue remaining before the district court, ending the litigation in a…
All eight of New Zealand’s universities are being taken to the New Zealand Copyright Tribunal for refusing to agree to an increased annual licence fee which allows lecturers to copy authors’ work for students. Read the story here: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10870331
If you have been following the story, you’ll be interested in the latest news. The Authors Guild and its co-plaintiffs have filed their opening brief appealing from their decisive loss in the district court. According to Professor James Grimmelmann, New York Law School in his Laboratorium blog of 27 February, “Most of the arguments should…
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