Court Awards Science Publisher $15M in Suit Over Copied Articles Online

One of the world’s largest science publishers, Elsevier, won a default legal judgment against websites that provide illicit access to tens of millions of research papers and books. A New York district court awarded Elsevier $15 million in damages for copyright infringement by Sci-Hub, the Library of Genesis (LibGen) project and related sites.

 

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