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US Court Grants Elsevier Millions in Damages From Sci-Hub

posted by cmn32480 on Sunday June 25 2017, @11:37AM   Printer-friendly
from the good-luck-collecting-on-that dept.

mrpg writes:

Nature reports:

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

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  • (Score: 2) by fishybell on Sunday June 25 2017, @06:17PM (2 children)

    by fishybell (3156) on Sunday June 25 2017, @06:17PM (#530920)

    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.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 25 2017, @07:28PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 25 2017, @07:28PM (#530937)

    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

      by hemocyanin (186) on Monday June 26 2017, @03:08AM (#531081) Journal

      So if taxpayers have already paid for the research, why should they pay AGAIN for the report of what they paid for?