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Re:Collusion rings threaten the integrity of computer scienc... by jacobolus on Wednesday May 26, 2021 @10:45PM (#27298764)
It’s unclear that stealing someone’s scientific ideas is a copyright violation. Though it may depend on exactly what was copied and how.

> In no case does copyright protection for an original work of authorship extend to any idea, procedure, process, system, method of operation, concept, principle, or discovery, regardless of the form in which it is described, explained, illustrated, or embodied in such work

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Re:Collusion rings threaten the integrity of computer scienc... by nextaccountic on Thursday May 27, 2021 @01:45AM (#27299786)
The ideas themselves aren't but it appears the paper was a blatant copy, image by image, and this IS a copyright violation.
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Re:Collusion rings threaten the integrity of computer scienc... by lodovic on Thursday May 27, 2021 @03:41AM (#27300406)
"regardless of the form in which it is described, explained, illustrated, or embodied in such work" - didn't know this either, but apparently even image-by-image copies are allowed.
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Re:Collusion rings threaten the integrity of computer scienc... by Retric on Thursday May 27, 2021 @11:05AM (#27303992)
Scientific ideas are one thing, however if scientific papers don’t have copyright protection then Sci-Hub should be legally fine. So, that doesn’t seem to be the case.
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