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William Gunn

@yabellini I'll probably regret this, but... one is using information posted publicly to the web in what's arguably a transformative fair use. One uses stolen credentials to provide verbatim copies of content with zero pretense of fair use. Yes, it should all be free and open, but wishes don't pay the salaries of all the people and systems required to provide the services.

10 January at 5:07 | Wall-to-wall | Open on mastodon.social
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Fabio G.

@williamgunn Research is pretty much the paradigmatic example of fair use

Also, “the people and systems required to provide the services” no doubt includes the authors of the papers and their research equipment and facilities, which receive $0 from the scandalous fees the publishers charge

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10 January at 7:02 | Open on mastodon.social
Edi'Hael :verified:

@magitweeter @williamgunn @yabellini yeah this. Very often, this is even publicly funded research that the publishers just charge ridiculous amounts for, while all they do is distribute a few megabytes of data. Neither the authors nor the peer reviewers get paid anything.

10 January at 16:19 | Open on aelf.ee
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