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0 pointsmarcosdumay1y ago0 comments

> 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.

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Do you have a citation for that claim? I've not seen a claim that none of the material had copyright before.

It's a library of historical scientific work. You will find the famous Einstein's 3 1905 papers there, for example.

Every scientific paper in the last 90 years or so is still under copyright, owned by the authors, the published, or the universities.

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0 pointsmarcosdumay1y ago0 comments

> 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.

Do you have a citation for that claim? I've not seen a claim that none of the material had copyright before.

It's a library of historical scientific work. You will find the famous Einstein's 3 1905 papers there, for example.

Every scientific paper in the last 90 years or so is still under copyright, owned by the authors, the published, or the universities.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse