Elsevier Wins $15 Million in Copyright Suit Against Piracy Sites – The Ticker - Blogs - The Chronicle of Higher Education
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Summary:
"A federal court has ruled in favor of one of the world’s largest science publishers in its lawsuit against websites that provide free, pirated access to millions of scholarly-journal articles, Nature.com reported on Thursday.
In a judgment handed down this week, Judge Robert W. Sweet of the U.S. District Court in New York City ruled for the company, Elsevier, in the absence of any representatives of the defendants, which include Sci-Hub, LibGen, and related sites, and awarded the publisher $15 million in damages for copyright infringement.
Judge Sweet issued a preliminary injunction against the operators of the sites in 2015 after ruling that they had violated copyright laws, but the sites stayed active and continued to provide illegal access to articles."