Court ruling says that the academic-networking website is responsible for papers uploaded by its users — but ResearchGate plans to appeal the decision.
against ResearchGate in a regional court in Munich in 2017, alleging that the site had made copyrighted material freely available. ResearchGate said that it could not be held responsible for the content, which was uploaded by authors.
“We believe that the outputs of scientific research, the majority of which is funded by public money, should be shared as openly as possible and we’ll continue to support researchers in sharing their work easily and legally,” says a spokesperson for ResearchGate. They add that it is up to publishers to work with platforms to remove uploaded content, and that in the years since the case was first brought they had introduced software that could help prevent the sharing of copyrighted material.
The Munich lawsuit focused on 50 articles on the site, all of which have since been removed. The court ruled that the uploaded articles breached the publishers’ copyrights, and that ResearchGate was responsible for the content on its platform. “Only a sample of 50 articles was included, but the verdict speaks to the responsibility of the site in general,” says the spokesperson for the Coalition for Responsible Sharing.
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