The plan to mine the world’s research papers

Pulla, Priyanka

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Carl Malamud is on a crusade to liberate information locked up behind paywalls — and his campaigns have scored many victories. He has spent decades publishing copyrighted legal documents, from building codes to court records, and then arguing that such texts represent public-domain law that ought to be available to any citizen online. Sometimes, he has won those arguments in court. Now, the 60-year-old American technologist is turning his sights on a new objective: freeing paywalled scientific literature. And he thinks he has a legal way to do it.

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Nature 571, 316-318 (2019)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-019-02142-1

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  • Correction 19 July 2019: An earlier version of this feature used the term ‘fair use’ inappropriately — the term isn’t relevant under Indian law.

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