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Just last week I found a research paper I published while at Cornell on Scribd -- no attribution at all, no permissions, etc. It's a paper that in normal circu
by jogle 16y ago
Just last week I found a research paper I published while at Cornell on Scribd -- no attribution at all, no permissions, etc. It's a paper that in normal circulation costs $50 to purchase (and has been purchased a few thousand times -- whether $50 is reasonable or not is a discussion for another thread, of course).
I considered letting my editor know about it to see if she wanted me to request it be taken down, but then I figured I'd rather more people see the paper anyway so left it alone.
- smartrly 16y agoThe problem, of course, is that you should've been the one making the decision in the first place.
- nl 16y agoThe article is probably in an academic journal and the author doesn't have rights to decide what to do with it. (Scribd may be evil, but academic publishing is like a coven of necromancers)
- joubert 16y agoI'd rather more people see the paper anyway so left it alone. I would ask the uploader to add proper attribution though.