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One of the world's largest science publishers, Elsevier, won a default legal judgement on 21 June against websites that provide illicit access to tens of millions of research papers and books. A New York district court awarded Elsevier US$15 million in damages for copyright infringement by Sci-Hub, the Library of Genesis (LibGen) project and related sites.
Judge Robert Sweet had ruled in October 2015 that the sites violate US copyright. The court issued a preliminary injunction against the sites' operators, who nevertheless continued to provide unauthorized free access to paywalled content. Alexandra Elbakyan, a former neuroscientist who started Sci-Hub in 2011, operates the site out of Russia, using varying domain names and IP addresses.
In May, Elsevier gave the court a list of 100 articles illicitly made available by Sci-Hub and LibGen, and asked for a permanent injunction and damages totalling $15 million. The Dutch publishing giant holds the copyrights for the largest share of the roughly 28 million papers downloaded from Sci-Hub over 6 months in 2016, followed by Springer Nature and Wiley-Blackwell. (Nature is published by Springer Nature, and Nature's news and comment team is editorially independent of the publisher.) According to a recent analysis, almost 50% of articles requested from Sci-Hub are published by these three companies1.
Previously: Elsevier Wants $15 Million Piracy Damages from Sci-Hub and Libgen
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 25 2017, @12:32PM (1 child)
Imagine if to get a tv channel you want it was necessary to buy 9,999 unwanted crap channels. Then they value each at $30 a day. That is what these journals are like. Most of these "reads" are just people glancing at a paper and immediately determining it is junk.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 25 2017, @10:45PM
30 a day? Springer is nowadays charging ~€40-45 per article.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by kaszz on Sunday June 25 2017, @12:57PM (5 children)
Kazakh republic and Seychelles sincerely says f-ck you to Evilvier? ;-)
Or perhaps.. USA did what? doh? hahah.. now, next on today's program.
There might be some luck with Seychelles since they have a link to Britain. But any action may simply result in the servers taking a flight to some territory under the Russian sphere. Incredible phony paper attack. "Congratulations, you are the winner of this worthless paper."
Why don't public funding strictly require open access and put an end to this circus?
Or could tax payers demand payment for unauthorized use of public funds against Evilvier holding that knowledge hostage?
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 25 2017, @03:17PM (4 children)
Get government out of the business of allocating capital.
You want open access? Then get together with other people and form your own funding organization to which people can donate money; if you want control over the data, then quit relying on government to steal money from other people in order to pay for the research that interests you.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 25 2017, @03:26PM
*sigh* Yet another libertard troll. Go away!
(Score: 2) by fishybell on Sunday June 25 2017, @06:17PM (2 children)
The government "allocating capital" has nothing to do with this.
This is a private organization suing a different organization for IP infringement. What are you talking about?
You want to complain about IP laws? Fine, do it. At least you'd be on topic.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 25 2017, @07:28PM (1 child)
I'm responding to the concerns of OP, who is talking about taxpayer funding of research.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by hemocyanin on Monday June 26 2017, @03:08AM
So if taxpayers have already paid for the research, why should they pay AGAIN for the report of what they paid for?
(Score: 5, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 25 2017, @02:29PM
I'm at a university that has access to all the journals. I STILL go to scihub because you cut and paste the title and it just gets it for you as a pdf download. There's no cumbersome Javascript whizzbang grinding away trying to autolink the references, or recommending crud to me or "not finding" my article because I left a comma in the search box or didn't enter the year range or some such nonsense.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Wootery on Monday June 26 2017, @08:18AM
Can anyone explain how Google Books is still getting away with it?