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> If you plug a laptop into a closet at MIT to download some scientific papers you forfeit your life. Just to point, but the material in question was public do
by marcosdumay 2y ago
> If you plug a laptop into a closet at MIT to download some scientific papers you forfeit your life.
Just to point, but the material in question was public domain, so nobody had even a copyrights claim over it.
- scottbez1 2y agoDo you have a citation for that claim? I've not seen a claim that none of the material had copyright before.
- marcosdumay 2y agoIt's a library of historical scientific work. You will find the famous Einstein's 3 1905 papers there, for example.
- warkdarrior 2y agoEvery scientific paper in the last 90 years or so is still under copyright, owned by the authors, the published, or the universities.
- marcosdumay 2y agoJSTOR was explicitly a library of public domain works, consolidated in a single place so that academic libraries could access those papers that nobody had an interest in distributing anymore. It recently added a bunch of copyrighted journals. It didn't have any of those at the time.
- dekhn 2y agoI re-read the MIT report by Abelson and it looks like JSTOR was an archive of old scientific articles from many journals, most of them still under copyright by the journal. I'd need to see more evidence that it was public domain.