[open-science] UK text mining exception: sci-hub

Fri Jul 8 16:15:36 UTC 2016

Is sci-hub legal in your country? If yes, then it is legal for you get papers from sci-hub. If not, then it is not legal for you to get papers from sci-hub. You always break the laws of the country where you are located, and those who believe are harmed by your action have the recourse to sue you in your country because that is where you have broken the law.

> On Jul 8, 2016, at 12:10 PM, Maximilian Haeussler <maximilianh at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I have a naive question about copyright, sorry, and just out of curiosity:
> 
> If a UK-based researcher is crawling papers but has trouble getting
> them because of anti-bot techniques (e.g. Karger), is it legal for her
> to crawl the papers from sci-hub instead?