Thank you for sharing this. I wonder, apart from financies, how can we support their efforts?
Make sure you have a copy. Share it with your peers. Decentralise so there is no "their" but "our".
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#22Thank you for sharing this. I wonder, apart from financies, how can we support their efforts?
One thing to do is to improve peer-2-peer technology , that it will be fit for the task.To do this we'll need a few things : 1. Torrents(as the most proven tech) should be able to handle storage of rare file (i.e. persistence) well[a]. 2. A working peer to peer search mechanism - i believe tribler has that. It might need some customization for academic papers - but it's written in python , so it won't be terribly har…
https://ipfs.io/ is the long term solution.
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#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
Anything is renegotiable or litigable. Schools and academics can drop subscriptions or boycott submissions. Law can be changed. Even if that's future-looking only, it can change the balance of interests for journal publishers.
Or you can show civil disobedience: > https://archive.org/stream/GuerillaOpenAccessManifesto/Goamjuly2008_djvu.txt > https://archive.org/details/GuerillaOpenAccessManifesto If lots of people would do it, there can only few show trials be initialized by the publishers. "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win." - Mahatma Gandhi
I'm proud to have done something similar to this. I knew I was going to have to sign over the publication rights to my dissertation. Before I did that, I published the approved, and signed off "final draft" to the Internet Archive with an open license. (I hadn't heard of Aaron or the Guerrilla Open Access Manifesto at the time.)
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#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
One thing to do is to improve peer-2-peer technology , that it will be fit for the task.To do this we'll need a few things : 1. Torrents(as the most proven tech) should be able to handle storage of rare file (i.e. persistence) well[a]. 2. A working peer to peer search mechanism - i believe tribler has that. It might need some customization for academic papers - but it's written in python , so it won't be terribly har…
https://ipfs.io/ is the long term solution.
I don't know. like i mention in the link of the previous discussion - At least for this goal - Tribler seems to be mostly there including being part of the huge torrent community, it's written in python - so it's seem like it could easily do the job - so why complicate things at this stage which should be about and MVP and building a community ?
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#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's not possible in the US. If the authors validly transferred copyright, they validly transferred copyright. (There is a takeback provision after 50 years or so, but ...)
Anything is renegotiable or litigable. Schools and academics can drop subscriptions or boycott submissions. Law can be changed. Even if that's future-looking only, it can change the balance of interests for journal publishers.
"Anything is renegotiable or litigable."
Actually not. This would be likely dismissed before a hearing was held.
In any case, what was asked was whether there is a snowball's chance of hell of nullifying a copyright claim. The answer here is "no".
Good luck trying to change copyright though. I spent about 7 years in DC working on copyright and patent reform. It's very lonely.
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#26Anyone here remembers gigapedia?
I do, it was a nice site. libgen.io has taken it's place I guess.