From: Sandy Thatcher <[log in to unmask]> Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2017 11:14:48 -0500 Some of you may be happy that Sci-Hub exists and is harming commercial firms like Elsevier. But have you stopped to think about the significant damage that Lib-Gen is doing to university presses? Sandy Thatcher > From: Ann Shumelda Okerson <[log in to unmask]> > Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2017 02:12:15 -0400 > > "One of the world's largest science publishers, Elsevier, won a > default legal judgement on 21 June against websites that provide > illicit access to tens of millions of research papers and books. A New > York district court awarded Elsevier US$15 million in damages for > copyright infringement by Sci-Hub, the Library of Genesis (LibGen) > project and related sites." > > [SNIP] > > "But academic publishing observers following the case have questioned > whether Elsevier will ever see any damages from Elbakyan, who resides > outside the court's jurisdiction and has no assets in the United > States. The ruling is also unlikely to prompt Sci-Hub or other pirate > sites to close up shop." > > http://www.nature.com/news/us-court-grants-elsevier-millions-in-damages-from-sci-hub-1.22196 > > See also this: > > "The Association of American Publishers (AAP) welcomes the June 21, > 2017 ruling of the United States District Court for the Southern > District of New York regarding the willful infringement of scores of > scholarly articles protected by copyright law. Ruling in favor of > Elsevier, the publisher that brought the action, the Court entered a > default judgment against Sci-Hub, the Library Genesis Project, and a > number of related sites, and against the defendant operator." > > [SNIP] > > http://newsroom.publishers.org/the-association-of-american-publishers-welcomes-major-judgement-against-sci-hub-pirate-site/