Elsevier issues academics thousands of takedown notices, doesn't want any friends anyway » MobyLives

"With all the delicacy and tact of Rob Ford at a press conference, the academic publisher Elsevier has stepped up their attempts to control the circulation of journal articles, sending thousands of takedown notices to websites in December. Elsevier is using the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (much as music publishers and film studios have done) as the basis for this sweeping attack on websites like Academia.edu and ResearchGate, which allow professors to post papers and research. In the past, Elsevier had issued the occasional takedown notice here and there, but there was a significant uptick in early December. Academics like Guy Leonard received word from Academia.edu that papers they’d posted had been taken down. According to a blogpost by Jennifer Howard in the Chronicle of Higher Education ..."