What Sci-Hub’s latest court battle means for research

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Summary:

The legal battle between the American Chemical Society, Elsevier, and Wiley at Delhi High Court, India against Sci-Hub is on."Delhi court will scrutinize whether the pirate paper website falls foul of India’s copyright law." According to legal experts, the list of exemptions in India’s Copyright Act of 1957, under "Fair dealing", might favour Sci-Hub. 

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For Alexandra Elbakyan's response to this article, see her tweet from December 14, 2021. The response is apparently available no where else. 

https://twitter.com/ringo_ring/status/1470815566160179201

Link:

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-03659-0

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Tags:

oa.india oa.copyright oa.sci-hub oa.publishers oa.guerrilla oa.south oa.litigation oa.new oa.els oa.wiley oa.acs

Date tagged:

12/13/2021, 22:56

Date published:

12/13/2021, 10:01