Final Hearing in Diego Gomez's Case on Wednesday | Electronic Frontier Foundation

lterrat's bookmarks 2017-01-25

Summary:

"After a postponed hearing in October, final arguments in Diego Gomez’s case are scheduled for Wednesday, January 25. This marks the potential conclusion of a court case that has gone on for more than two and a half years. Regardless of the verdict, Diego’s case is an urgent, global reminder to advocates of open research: open access must become the default in academic publishing, and we need global reforms to get there.

When Diego Gomez, a biology master’s student at the University of Quindio in Colombia, shared a colleague’s thesis with other scientists over the Internet, he was doing what any other science grad student would do: sharing research he found useful so others could benefit from it and build on it. But the author of the paper filed a lawsuit over the 'violation of [his] economic and related rights,' putting this master’s graduate in his late 20s at risk of being sentenced to four to eight years in prison with crippling monetary fines. (Colombian digital rights organization Fundación Karisma, in addition to providing Diego with legal assistance, has documented Diego’s story in detail here.)"

Link:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/01/final-hearing-diego-gomezs-case-wednesday

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Tags:

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Date tagged:

01/25/2017, 15:54

Date published:

01/25/2017, 10:54