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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: -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?