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linked to by 4How do copyright and fair use laws, framed before the internet was a twinkle in the eye, apply in the world of blogging? The answer, as a case that unfolded on ScienceBlogs this week demonstrates, may be "not so clearly."Ergo, we've asked a few experts and...
Zuska alerted me to Shelley's recent run-in with Wiley, one of the big 7 -- or is it 6 now? -- science/tech/med publishers. Shelley reviewed a recent article in the Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture (no link -- what would be the point, they won't...
linked to by 2Oh dear, oh dear! Our stubby blogging fingers couldn't type fast enough when we heard about the heavy-handed treatment of Shelley Batts, a neuroscience PhD candidate at the University of Michigan. In fact my colleague at PhysMath Central beat me to it. Traditional...
How can a publisher be so dumbI posted a while ago about copyright policies of different science publishers regarding images. I concluded by saying that in any case we should be safe to blog images since no publisher would likely sue a blogger for using an...
This is the sort of thing that really irritates me.Shelley, over at Retrospectacle posted a rather nice analysis of a paper that appeared in the Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture entitled Natural volatile treatments increase free-radical scavenging...
A fellow ScienceBlogger has been threatened with legal action for reproduction of figures. Is this fair use or not? Honestly, I don't care too much, it seems that they just wanted the bad publicity/review to go away. So I say give them more! Here is the text...
linked to by 1I'm cross-posting (sort of) my take on Shelley Batts' experience with Wiley and copyrighted figures.Here's the short version:The fact is, though, the whole thing is most probably down to an editorial assistant in London doing her job a bit too eagerly. Maybe...
Even though I have read many fine pieces of research in your pages, you have to go. Like others in the science blogging community I am appalled at the heavyhanded tactics Wiley has decided to use against fellow ScienceBlogger Shelley at Retrospectacle. In an...
If you blinked at any point over the last few days, you may have missed a minor scandal in the science blogosphere, pertaining to fair use of information from a scientific journal.Anyway, on Tuesday, over at the ScienceBlog Retrospectacle, neuroscience PhD...
Picture from Grant Robertson.In an interesting turn of events, it was announced on Page 3.14 (the editorial blog of ScienceBlogs) that there will be an ongoing, online discussion of fair use issues here. How do copyright and fair use laws, framed before the...
My little trip distracted me with the perfect timing to miss the amazing fair-use flare-up — I'm back just in time to catch the happy resolution. I guess I'll say something anyway, but I'll be brief.The general question is whether blogs should be restrained...
How do copyright and fair use laws, framed before the internet was a twinkle in the eye, apply in the world of blogging? The answer, as a case that unfolded on ScienceBlogs this week demonstrates, may be "not so clearly."Ergo, we've asked a few experts and...
Sometime back a commenter wondered what I mean by Open Science - to the extent whether it means to think all the time aloud so that there is never a quiet moment anymore etc. Of course that is not what I meant as I clarified but here is an instant of what is...
Yesterday, I wrote about Wiley Interscience and the Society of Chemical Industry making legal threats against fair use: Wiley Interscience: Where Science Meets Legal Threats.Today, Shelley Batts received an apology from them:We apologise for any misunderstanding....
I am happy to report that the little dust-up between Shelley Batts and Wiley has ended peacefully. Wiley has apologized for their rather heavy-handed treatment of the matter. When I read the good news over at Shelley's blog, I had a number of reactions. Happily...
The publisher's reactionSarah Cooney, Director of Publications for the Society of Chemical Industry as issued an official reply to the gathering criticism:"We apologise for any misunderstanding. In this situation the publisher would typically grant permission...
Try telling that to Wiley, whose unbelievably heavy-handed treatment of Shelley Batts (scroll past the links to read their emails) couldn't be a better advertisement for open access. Had the work in question been published in an open access journal, then there...
Thats what some bloggers have suggested. Well, am I?Some may call it cowardly, but here was my response:Sorry, guess I'm not as brave as you.Perhaps its is all well and good for people to try to take a confrontation stance on these issues however my first line...
Wiley certainly seems to have (via Pedro) and sent a cease & desist letter to Shelley Batts for using a table and graphs from a recent paper (used in support of a blog post). Shelley did comply, regenerating the graphics in excel.I don’t have to tell...
I don't know if you caught this story, but one of our fellow bloggers here at ScienceBlogs, Shelley Batts of Retrospectacle, was threatened with legal action when she reproduced a figure from a published paper in one of her blog posts. The original post is...
Shelley Batts, Retrospectacle, wrote a an interesting post on the effect of alcohol and antioxidant levels. Her article was based on original research also reported by the BBC.Great, I thought, one for my Food Fables post.Then the Journal for the Science of...
In a recent publication, Medeiros Coelho and colleagues (2007) reported that altered levels of phytate contribute to the "hard-to-cook" phenomenon that can occur after storage of common beans at extreme temperature conditions. Why do they become "hard-to-cook"?In...
If you've been reading Scienceblogs over the last 24 hours or so, you've probably seen reference to Shelley's legal issues regarding Wiley publishing and their accusation that her use of one panel of one figure of a scientific paper violated copyright. Well,...
The latest issue tearing across the science blogosphere is journal publisher John Wiley & Sons harassement of ScienceBlogger Shelley Batts.Batts original post used a figure from a journal article from the Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture entitled...
I was going to post a note on Shelly's run-in with the Journal of Science of Food and Agriculture regarding fair-use of a published graph. I was going to run a copy of the offending graph. But all seems to be ok now and the journal has backed down, blaming...
Looks like our efforts paid off. :DDear Dr Batts I'd like to introduce myself as the Director of Publications at the SCI. There has been a general misunderstanding with this issue. Our official response is below, which we are happy for you to publish:"We apologise...
Shelley at Retrospectacle ran into a corporate tangle of moronicityto cut a long story short, she used a figure from a paper in discussing the article, which seems to be clear "fair use", and got a lawyer letter from the publishers (Wiley).Here is the original...
Take care next time you clip a small section from a journal article to illustrate a blog post. Certain publishers might call in the heavyweight legal division. Or in other cases, perhaps the heavyweight armoured division.This is being discussed everywhere;...
Ever wonder what biobloggers are blogging about on their blogs? Here's what:Razib posts part of a paper by Jerry Coyne and others (which I can't seem to track down) which questions the role cis regulatory elements play in adaptive phenotypic evolution. This...
By now you have already heard that my ScienceBlogs colleague, Shelley Batts of Retrospectacle, has been threatened with legal action if she did not remove published figures from a blog post. Shelley had a nifty post on a recent paper in the Journal of the Science...
When Shelley Batts wrote up a report on an article about antioxidants in fruits, she never expected to get contacted by the copyright police, but that's exactly what happened. She had reproduced a table and a figure from the article, and got this notice from...
Shelley Batts at Retrospectacle got a nasty letter from a publisher over a blog post in which she reproduced a part of a figure and one data table from a paper. It's more than a little surprising to me that the publisher thinks this is a good use of their time,...
Shelley Batts over at Retrospectacle was contacted yesterday by a representative of Wiley Interscience, who objected to her fair use of part of one figure from a paper. (Wiley has a record of acting dubiously.) Shelley has posted the exchange on her blog and...
Shelley Batts over at Retrospectacle was contacted yesterday by a representative of Wiley Interscience, who objected to her fair use of part of one figure from a paper. Shelley has posted the exchange on her blog.Wiley’s legal threats are baseless because...
I am a proponent of open access to the scientific literature. We, as taxpayers, fund the research reported in the journals and should have access to the results. I bring this up because a particularly bad case of a publisher of scientific journals behaving...
Shelley Batts at Retrospectacle wrote a post the other day analyzing a journal article that has been reported misleadingly in the popular press under headlines like "Alcohol Makes Fruit Healthier". In her post she had reproduced a part of one figure and a table...
Via GMBM: Blogger served with takedown notice for citing a journal article (and using a clip of some graphed data from the article as part of the citation). Do you want your publishers preventing people from talking about your own articles?...
In this post, my SciBling Shelley Batts, of Retrospectacle, analyzed a recent paper claiming that fruit becomes healthier when consumed with alcohol. Something about boosting the antioxidant properties of the fruit.Interesting stuff. Even more interesting was...
Tomorrow the hammer's coming down hard over the 'Fair Use' issue, at ScienceBlogs and hopefully around the blogosphere. Quite a few of my fellow SciBlings have pledged to post about this issue, as it affects us all (not only all of us, but all of you too.)If...
In case you haven't heard about it already, fellow ScienceBlogger and neuroblogger Shelley has been threatened by lawyers for using images from a journal article in her blog posts. Now, I do this all the time (check two posts back), because the whole point...
Mark Chu-Carroll of Good Math, Bad Math has a very supportive article up summarizing my tangle with lawyers yesterday over the 'fair use' of a figure from the fruit antioxidant paper. In short, I was threatened with legal action if I didn't take it down immediately....
Mark Chu-Carroll of Good Math, Bad Math has a very supportive article up summarizing my tangle with lawyers yesterday over the 'fair use' of a figure from the fruit antioxidant paper. In short, I was threatened with legal action if I didn't take it down immediately....
A fellow ScienceBlogger has been threatened with legal action for reproduction of figures. Obviously we post figures here on this weblog pretty frequently. It isn't to screw over the companies doing the publishing from making profits, we just want to talk science....
This doesn't affect me personally, but my friend and fellow ScienceBlogger Shelly Batts of Retrospectacle has been threatened by lawyers from the Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture, one of the Wiley group's journals, for reproducing a part of one...
A minor flap has erupted regarding blogging and scientific publishing that I'd like to draw some attention to: Shelley Batts, who writes the Retrospectacle blog posted her own summary and review of a research paper published in the Journal of the Science of...
From the BBC on down, in the past few days the headline "Alchohol Makes Fruit Healthier" has been highlighted in nearly every news venue. The fruit contains compounds [antioxidants] that can protect against cancer, heart disease and arthritis. But having them...
From the BBC on down, in the past few days the headline "Alchohol Makes Fruit Healthier" has been highlighted in nearly every news venue. The fruit contains compounds [antioxidants] that can protect against cancer, heart disease and arthritis. But having them...