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That was not immediately clear, wish that had been in the title. I was curious how you were scraping private PDFs and open sourcing such a thing.
by ohashi 14y ago
That was not immediately clear, wish that had been in the title. I was curious how you were scraping private PDFs and open sourcing such a thing.
- delinquentme 14y agoSo one is clearly somewhat legal grey area, while what is here is a little more legal. Perhaps someone will take this library and put it to good use to topple that tower =]
- eli 14y agoIANAL, but I would think the wholesale scraping and republishing of entire copyrighted research papers would be a pretty dark shade of grey, no?
- delinquentme 14y agoIts your tax dollars that someone else has locked up. Why don't you tell me.
- eli 14y ago"Ethical" is not necessarily the same thing as "legal." And I think it's rare that there's a paper that is entirely funded by tax dollars. I agree that all research receiving government grants should be open access, but it's not quite as clear cut as you seem to imply.