[CRS_META] Copyright infringements

[ROBERT CAVANAUGH]

--- Tim Tyler <seemysig at googlemail.com> wrote:

> mr wrote:
> 
> > Copyright violation is not a new issue. The List
> rules
> > have said, at least as far back as 2000, that
> people
> > should not even be posting full PubMed abstracts!!
> > This was way before online full-text articles
> became
> > available, let alone so readily. 
> 
> Right.  So, as the copyright infringements
> have grown increasingly common, is
> the damage potential large enough for
> the CRS be worried?  Is there a technical fix
> - such as avoiding the takedown charge?


That is an interesting question.  I guess the best
option from a financial point would be to take the
archive down altogether since there are hundreds if
not thousands of posts which violate the US copyright
law and/or U.S. National Library of Medicine policy.

Once the archive is down, someone (not me) would have
to expunge all the abstracts/articles, etc., and leave
the URL of where the article/abstract is located. 
Then the "cleaned" archive could be uploaded to
another host.

I'd like to think there is an easier solution.

Bob 


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