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Looking Into Pandora's Box: The Content Of Sci-Hub And Its Usage, Bastian Greshake
Looking Into Pandora's Box: The Content Of Sci-Hub And Its Usage, Bastian Greshake
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Despite the growth of Open Access, potentially illegally circumventing paywalls to access scholarly publications is becoming a more mainstream phenomenon. The web service Sci-Hub is amongst the biggest facilitators of this, offering free access to around 62 million publications. So far it is not well studied how and why its users are accessing publications through Sci-Hub. By utilizing the recently released corpus of Sci-Hub and comparing it to the data of ~28 million downloads done through the service, this study tries to address some of these questions. The comparative analysis shows that both the usage and complete corpus is largely …
Crown Copyright: An Overview For Government Departments, National Archives, United Kingdom
Crown Copyright: An Overview For Government Departments, National Archives, United Kingdom
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The purpose of this guidance is to provide government departments with a general overview on how Crown copyright is managed. It covers the following: What is Crown copyright? Copyright ownership, re-use of Crown copyright information, and copyright and publishing.
Theft! A History Of Music: A Tale Of Law And Music That Leads Through The Gates Of Time! [Tales From The Public Domain], Keith Aoki, James Boyle, Jennifer Jenkins
Theft! A History Of Music: A Tale Of Law And Music That Leads Through The Gates Of Time! [Tales From The Public Domain], Keith Aoki, James Boyle, Jennifer Jenkins
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This comic lays out 2000 years of musical history. A neglected part of musical history. Again and again there have been attempts to police music; to restrict borrowing and cultural cross-fertilization. But music builds on itself. To those who think that mash-ups and sampling started with YouTube or the DJ's turntables, it might be shocking to find that musicians have been borrowing-extensively borrowing-from each other since music began. Then why try to stop that process The reasons varied. Philosophy, religion, politics, race--again and again, race--and law. And because music affects us so deeply, those struggles were passionate …