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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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