Global publishing giant wins $15 million damages against researcher for sharing publicly-funded knowledge | Privacy Online News
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Summary:
"The court awarded $15 million damages to the scientific publisher on the basis of 100 articles published by Elsevier that had been made available without permission on Sci-Hub and a similar site called LibGen. At the time of writing, Sci-Hub claims to hold 62 million scientific research papers – probably a majority of all those ever published – most of which are unauthorized copies."