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One guidance for the ethical side are the guidelines agreed upon by professional associations. I can't think of any that condone copyright infringement.
by lambdaelite 11y ago
One guidance for the ethical side are the guidelines agreed upon by professional associations. I can't think of any that condone copyright infringement.
- wolfgke 11y agoAnother guidance for the ethical side is the concrete behaviour of working scientists: If they would send you the paper if you asked them by email, this is a clear statement that copyright violation is perfectly okay.
- lambdaelite 11y agoAt least in my discipline, authors either retain copyright to their manuscript and can disseminate that freely, or they are able to personally disseminate the final published article (sometimes including on their own website). No copyright transgression occurs in this case.
- mirimir 11y agoWay back in the day, we would buy reprints from the journal, and then mail them to requesters. And then Xerox machines appeared, and we made our own copies. Now we just email PDFs.
- njharman 11y agoI disagree that that is a good source of guidance. Even if we take that as a given, OF COURSE few organizations promote breaking the law (sometimes a crime it self). Although, many, many push to change the law / restrictions put on scientific research. I can't spend time to google and list all the references. start here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_science#Projects_promoting_open_science https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_science#Projects_promotin...