Sci-Hub 'Pirate Bay For Scientists' Sued by American Chemical Society Over Cloned Site (ibtimes.co.uk)

The American Chemistry Society (ACS) is now suing Sci-Hub, the so-called "Pirate Bay for Scientists," over copyright infringement and counterfeiting, and is asking the courts to grant an injunction against the website in the US. From a report: Following the news that academic publisher Elsevier won a legal judgement of $15m in damages against Sci-Hub for allowing people to illegally download peer-reviewed academic papers for free, the world's largest scientific society ACS has filed its own lawsuit in the state of Virginia against the website. ACS is complaining that in addition to making hundreds of thousands of research papers owned by the society freely available, Sci-Hub has also cloned its website and is infringing its trademarks by operating two almost-identical replicas of the ACS website at pubs.acs.org.sci-hub.cc and acs.org.secure.sci-hub.cc.

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Default Judgement

[Luthair]

It should be noted that the judgement Elsvier won was a default judgement because SciHub didn't appear... because they aren't a US entity.

Re:Default Judgement

[ooloorie]

FYI:

Following a lawsuit brought in the US by the publisher Elsevier, Elbakyan [the SciHub founder] is presently in hiding due to the risk of extradition;[16] Elsevier has been granted a $15 million injunction against her.[17] According to a 2016 interview, her neuroscience research is on hold, but she has enrolled in a history of science master’s program at a “small private university” in an undisclosed location.

Note also that Elsevier is a Dutch publisher, headquartered in Amsterdam. Maybe the US should tell Elsevier to go f*ck themselves and file those lawsuits in Europe rather than the US. Why should the US always take the political crap that results from European publishers suing people?