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In Solidarity with Library Genesis and Sci-Hub

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Re: In Solidarity with Library Genesis and Sci-Hub

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Post by walterbell »

Remember that the TPP will enact new laws and penalties related to copyright, affecting 800 million people. First they came for the librarians... Unless there is public opposition, the TPP will likely be voted into effect during the US post-election lame duck period. Instead, the TPP can be made into a visible 2016 election issue, to forestall post-election flip-flops.

The US Copyright Office has a progressive report [1] on Orphan Works, a positive example of practical steps negotiated among a wide range of business and civil society stakeholders. This example can be expanded to other areas of copyright law. Instead, the TPP favors a subset [2] of corporate interests, at the expense of competing corporate and public groups who were excluded from deliberations. We can do better.

[1] http://www.copyright.gov/orphan/

[2] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/12/how-tpp-will-affect-yo...

Re: In Solidarity with Library Genesis and Sci-Hub

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Post by DannyBee »

return0 wrote: post #6

How hard is it to nullify a publisher's copyright claim (which has been consented by the authors), based on the fact that they do none of the work, thus indirectly appropriating public money?

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 ...)

Re: In Solidarity with Library Genesis and Sci-Hub

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Post by santaclaus »

danuker wrote: post #8

Why do they publish like this anyway? Does Elsevier offer anything extra? Or does it force scientists to use it?

Inertia, mostly. If you want your research visible and you want mad street cred for tenure, you publish in the biggest and baddest journals. The biggest and baddest journals are the biggest and baddest because they've been around since the days when scientists would go the university library to read papers.
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