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Re:What you may have heard about the dispute between UC and ... by n1000 on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @06:25AM (#20633396)
Another fun fact about Elsevier: In their contract with university libraries they exclude the right of fair use as described in the US copyright law. That means one can download papers, but technically mustn't use the data found in them without consent. This is just ridiculous.
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Re:What you may have heard about the dispute between UC and ... by pbhjpbhj on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @09:06AM (#20634302)
Isn't that illegal? Or at least, doesn't that cancel the copyright as it explicitly breaches the copyright contract with the demos.
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Re:What you may have heard about the dispute between UC and ... by n1000 on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @09:59AM (#20634721)
I was wondering too. The librarian that told me about it, is a copyright expert and was outraged. However, it seems like there was not much they could do. I am guessing the fact that this is happening at an Ivy league university means that lawyers are not useful in this matter. They also said that only Elsevier does that.
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