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Ross Mounce knows that when he shares his research papers online, he may be doing something illegal — if he uploads the final version of a paper that has appeared in a subscription-based journal. Publishers who own copyright on such papers frown on their unauthorized appearance online. Yet when Mounce has uploaded his paywalled articles to ResearchGate, a scholarly social network likened to Facebook for scientists, publishers haven't asked him to take them down. "I'm aware that I might be breaching copyright," says Mounce, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Cambridge, UK. "But I don't really care."
Mounce isn't alone in his insouciance. The unauthorized sharing of copyrighted research papers is on the rise, say analysts who track the publishing industry. Faced with this problem, science publishers seem to be changing tack in their approach to researchers who breach copyright. Instead of demanding that scientists or network operators take their papers down, some publishers are clubbing together to create systems for legal sharing of articles — called fair sharing — which could also help them to track the extent to which scientists share paywalled articles online.
Sharing information is antithetical to scientific progress.
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 11 2017, @10:17PM (7 children)
What if your neighbor is attacking a ship? Would it be wrong to help them?
Both sharing and piracy share ari, so they have 46% of themselves in common.
Your disinformation campaign does not deserve our support.
(Score: 3, Touché) by requerdanos on Thursday May 11 2017, @10:56PM (2 children)
Both sharing and piracy share ari
Wow. Noted. It's comments like this that should give everyone hope for mankind.
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Friday May 12 2017, @06:36AM (1 child)
I know you were being sarcastic, but actually comments like that do help. Because while the claim itself is clearly silly, it draws from a meme (which is exactly what makes it funny to begin with), and therefore causes your mind to, metaphorically speaking, put that meme into the criticism arena. And by being funny and obviously silly, it can pass the barrier for some people who already are immunized against rational arguments. And no, reading it will not immediately change your mind. But it still has a small effect, and constant dripping wears the stone.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 2) by requerdanos on Friday May 12 2017, @12:10PM
I know you were being sarcastic, but actually comments like that do help.
Well, maybe 25% sarcastic, but mostly serious. It does highlight exactly what sharing and piracy do have in common, in an unexpected way... and it isn't much.
(Score: 2) by fido_dogstoyevsky on Thursday May 11 2017, @11:29PM (1 child)
What if your neighbor is attacking a ship? Would it be wrong to help them?
Depends on the ship - is it one that habitually attacks your neighbour's ships without provocation?
It's NOT a conspiracy... it's a plot.
(Score: 2) by requerdanos on Friday May 12 2017, @12:12PM
habitually attacks your neighbour's ships without provocation?
To be fair, there is a certain type of ship [nytimes.com] known to do that.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 11 2017, @11:30PM (1 child)
sh(((ari)))ng
p(((ira)))cy
Coincidence detected.
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Friday May 12 2017, @06:51AM
by Anonymous Co(((war)))d. Coincidence detected. ;-)
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.