copyright

The long-term partnership follows a pilot project for which the scholarly publisher made select articles available on the academic networking site.

As the American Chemical Society and Elsevier move litigation forward, other academic publishers have opted to collaborate with the academic network platform instead.

The academic social network is bending to pressure from publishing giants that demand it removes copyrighted material from its site.

The American Chemical Society seeks a broad order that includes millions of dollars in damages and demands action from Internet service providers and search engines. 

In an effort to crack down on unauthorized postings of journal articles, the American Psychological Association is policing the Internet for scientists sharing their own work. 

Diego Gomez was facing jail time in Colombia for posting someone else’s copyrighted thesis online.

A Colombian graduate student is being charged with copyright infringement for posting another scientist’s thesis online—a crime punishable by up to eight years in jail.

The United Kingdom is revamping its intellectual property laws for published research.